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Gold is a highly sought-after precious metal that for many centuries has been used as money. Gold may also refer to:
Business
- Barrick Gold, the largest gold mining company in the world
- Gold's Gym, international chain of fitness centers originally started in California by Joe Gold
Chemistry
- Colloidal gold, suspension of sub-micrometre-sized particles of gold in a fluid
- Gold chalcogenides, gold compounds with anions from periodic table group 16
- Gold halide, metal halide
- Gold plating, method of depositing a thin layer of gold on the surface of other metal
- Rose gold, gold and copper alloy widely used for specialized jewelry due to its reddish color
- White gold, alloy of gold and at least one white metal
Color theory
- Gold (color), shade of the metal gold
- Old Gold, dark yellow
Computer science
- AntiVirus Gold, a piece of malware that poses as a legitimate antivirus program
- Gold Box, a series of computer role-playing games produced by SSI
- Gold release, the final development stage in software engineering when software is deemed ready for mass release
- GOLD (IEEE), Graduates of the Last Decade, an IEEE program designed to garner more student members at the university level
- GOLD (parser), an open source BNF parser
- Gathered or linked data in the staging tables of a data warehouse
Economics
- e-gold, digital gold currency operated by Gold & Silver Reserve Inc. under e-gold Ltd.
- Gold as an investment, the use of the precious metal gold as an investment
- Gold certificate, certificate of ownership that gold owners hold instead of storing the actual gold
- Gold coin, one of the oldest forms of money
- Gold Fixing, the procedure by which the price of gold is set on the London market by the five members of the London Gold Pool
- Gold gram, the amount of value represented by exactly one gram of gold
- Gold standard, monetary system in which the standard economic unit of account is a fixed weight of gold
- Nazi gold, the assets in gold transferred by Nazi Germany to overseas banks during the Second World War
Fiction
- Michael Jon Carter, fictional comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe who goes by the name of Booster Gold.
- Gold (Pokémon character), main character in Pokémon Adventures and Pokémon Gold
Film
- Crimson Gold, Iranian movie directed by Jafar Panahi
- Gold (film), 1974 film starring Roger Moore
- Ulee's Gold, 1997 film written and directed by Victor Nuñez
Literature
- The Gold-Bug a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- "Gold" (Asimov short story), science fiction story
- Gold Digger (comic book), manga-style comic book series
- Inca Gold, book written by Clive Cussler
Medicine
- The Gold Journal is the common name for the journal Urology.
Music
An album or a single is certified "gold" when it sells a certain number of copies. See Music recording sales certification for details.
- "Gold", 1979 song by John Stewart and Stevie Nicks
- "Gold", song by Grandaddy from their 1992 album Prepare to Bawl
- "Gold", 1995 song by Gza
- "Gold" (Beverley Knight song), 2002 top 10 single by Beverley Knight
- "Gold" (Prince song), 1995 single by Prince
- "Gold" (B'z song), 2001 single by B'z
- Gold album, album or single that has sold a minimum number of copies
- Gold (album), many different albums named Gold
- Gold (album series), a series of midprice double-CD compilations released by Universal music
- Gold CD, compact disc where gold is used instead of aluminium
- Gold City, Southern gospel performers
- "Gold Digger", 2005 number one single recorded by Kanye West
- "Gold" (Spandau Ballet song), 1983 song by Spandau Ballet
- Gold (band), a French band
People
- Andrew Gold (born 1951), singer and songwriter
- Jamie Gold (born 1969), winner of the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event
- Katie Gold (born 1978), pornographic actress
- Lex Gold (born 1940), football administrator
- Ted Gold (born 1947), radical Columbia University student leader
Technology
- Gold box (phreaking), phreaking box whose function is to create a bridge between two telephone lines
- Gold extraction, combination of comminution, mineral processing, hydrometallurgical, and pyrometallurgical processes
- Gold mining, the processes and techniques employed in the removal of gold from the ground
- Gold code, a code used in telecommunications
Media
- ANT1 Gold, spin-off satellite channel from Antenna Group
- UKTV Gold, British television channel
- Classic Gold Digital Network, a British radio network
Other
- Acapulco gold, legendary potent strain of marijuana originating in Mexico
- Gold Base, 500 acre parcel and the headquarters of Golden Era Productions
- Gold Country, California, United States
- Gold medal, gold-plated medal which represents the highest award for an achievement in a non-military field
- Gold Silver Bronze command structure, hierarchical framework used by emergency services in the UK
- Gold standard (test), the diagnostic test that is regarded as definitive in determining whether an individual has a disease process
- Gold teeth, popular fashion trend amongst devotees to hip hop culture in the United States
- Gold-plating, practise of national bodies exceeding the terms of European Community directives when implementing them into national law
- Pokémon Gold, Super Game Boy and Game Boy Color enhanced video game for the Nintendo Game Boy
- Gold Prince, famous Pony of the Americas sire
