The check valve, in particular for a high-pressure pump of a fuel injection system for an internal combustion engine, comprising one piece a valve housing (40) adapted to be inserted into a receptacle (34) in a pump housing part, a pistonlike valve member (60) is guided longitudinally displaceably in the valve housing (40), which valve member cooperates with a valve seat (48) embodied on the valve housing (40), and the valve member (60) being urged in the closing direction by a prestressed closing spring (70) and in the opening direction by the pressure prevailing in an inlet (44a), the check valve including an inlet (30) having at least one inlet conduit (50) and preferably a plurality of inlet conduits, extending through the valve housing (40), which at least one inlet conduit discharge in such a way into a bore (44a) surrounding the valve member (60) that the longitudinal axis (51) of the at least one inlet conduit (50) does not intersect the longitudinal axis (45) of the bore (44a) surrounding the valve member (60).