Pass

Pass, PASS, or The Pass may refer to:

Admission

• Ticket for admission
• Backstage pass, allows admission to backstage areas of a performance venue
• Press pass, grants special privilege or access to journalists
• Season Pass, allowing seasonal admission to an amusement park

Travel

• Pass (United States military), permission for military personnel to be away from their unit
• Hall pass, a token allowing a pupil to leave the classroom during school
• Transit pass, permitting travel, including
  • Boarding pass, allows a passenger to board an aircraft
  • Continent pass, a pass allowing air travel within a continent
  • E-ZPass, an electronic toll-collection system in the United States
  • Eurail pass, issued by Eurail Group for trains and buses in Europe
  • I-Pass, an electronic toll-collection system used in Illinois
  • Indrail Pass, a railway pass for Indian railways
• Pass laws, apartheid laws in South Africa which limited movement for some people
• U-Pass (disambiguation)

Other general uses

• Pass, an overtaking manoeuvre
• Pass (legislature), the action of approving a proposed law
• Pass (sleight of hand), a sleight of hand move
• Fish pass or fish ladder, a construction allowing migrating fish to pass an obstruction on a stream

Places

• Mountain pass, a lower place in a mountain range allowing easier passage
• Pass, the name of a number of straits: see List of straits
• Pass, Poland

People

• Frank Alexander de Pass, English soldier, first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War I
• Joe Pass (1929–1994), jazz musician
• John Pass (born 1947), British-born Canadian poet
• Nelson Pass (born 1951), designer of audio amplifiers
• Patrick Pass (born 1977), American football player

Sports and games

• Pass, a type of call in contract bridge
• Pass (ice hockey), the movement of the puck from one player to another
• Forward pass, in American and Canadian football
• Lateral pass or onside pass, in American and Canadian football respectively
• Pass, in rugby football: see Rugby passes
• Pass, in basketball: see Basketball passes
• Passing (association football)

Acronyms

• PASS Sample Size Software, a computer program for estimating sample size
• PASS (Proof of Age Standards Scheme), an age identification program in the U.K.
• PASS (Personal Automated Self Service), a brandname formerly used by the Bank of Ireland for ATM cards
• Peer-Assisted Study Sessions, an academic support program often used in higher education
• Postdoctoral Application Support Service, method for applying to postgraduate dental programs in the US
• Professional Association for SQL Server, a global Microsoft SQL Server community group
• Pro-Am Sports System, or PASS Sports, a former Detroit-area cable television channel
• Payments as a Secure Service, an electronic commerce payment system
• PASS device, a personal safety device used by firefighters entering a hazardous environment
• Plasma Acoustic Shield System, a disorientating weapon based on plasma explosions
• "Pin, Aim, Squeeze, Sweep," an acronym describing the use of a fire extinguisher
• Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive Theory, learning/intelligence model

See also

• Passing (disambiguation)
• Passage (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Pass"
  • First pass effect, a phenomenon of drug metabolism
  • Half-pass, a movement in dressage, in which the horse moves forward and sideways at the same time
  • Mountain pass theorem, an existence theorem from the calculus of variations
  • Pass Plus, a United Kingdom scheme to improve driving skills among young drivers
  • Pass by catastrophe, the concept that a disaster in an examination leads to all the students passing
  • Pass band or Passband, the range of frequencies that can pass through an electronic filter without being attenuated
  • Pass Labs, an audio company based in Foresthill, California, USA
  • Motion to pass on, a dilatory motion used in legislative procedure
  • Perfect Pass, a digital precision speed control system for power boats
  • "Make a pass at", an expression for flirting
  • Passing (racial identity), choosing to identify with a racial heritage group other than that assigned by social prejudice
  • Pass the Buck (disambiguation)
  • "The Pass" (song), a song by the band Rush
• Bypass (disambiguation)