To provide a conveyor and a conveying method requiring no storage and sending back of a conveying device.

The conveyor 1 has a plurality of fixed work receivers 2a, 2b arranged in a conveying direction with a predetermined gap and having work support parts 22a, 22b; guide parts 20a, 20b, 3a, 4a for connecting the adjacent fixed work receivers 2a, 2b; a giving/receiving part 53a for giving/receiving the work Wa between the work support parts 22a, 22b; and a part 54a to be guided guided by the guide parts 20a, 20b, 3a, 4a, and is provided with a plurality of conveying devices 5a arranged between the adjacent fixed work receivers 2a, 2b respectively and reciprocable between the fixed work receivers 2a, 2b. The conveying devices 5a carry out conveying of the work Wa by successively giving/receiving the work Wa from the fixed work receiver 2a adjacent to an upstream side to the fixed work receiver 2b adjacent to a downstream side.