Basking may refer to:

Basking in reflected glory, associating oneself with successful other such that their success becomes one's own Basking Ridge, New Jersey, unincorporated area in Bernards Township in the Somerset Hills region of Somerset County, New Jersey Basking Ridge (NJT station), New Jersey Transit station in Bernards Township, New Jersey Basking shark, Cetorhinus maximus, is the second largest living fish, after the whale shark Sunning (behaviour) or Basking behaviour used to raise body temperature, exhibited by some animals (see ectotherm)