What Does Farming Mean?

Farming refers to a gaming tactic where a player, or someone hired by a player, performs repetitive actions to gain experience, points or some form of in-game currency. Farming usually involves staying in a game area with a spawn point that generates endless numbers of items or enemies. The player collects the items or continuously kills the enemies for the experience, points and currency.

Techopedia Explains Farming

Farming is just like grinding experience points early in a game to expedite battle advancement. In fact, farming is extreme grinding.