Pool

Pool may refer to:

Pools of water

• Swimming pool, an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming
• Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings:
• Tide pool, a rocky pool on an ocean shore that remains filled with seawater when the tide goes out
• Plunge pool, a small, deep body of water
• Stream pool, a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream

Sports and gambling

• Pool (cue sports), a group of games played on a pool table
• Pool (poker) or pot, money wagered during a single hand of poker
• Pool betting or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together
  • Betting pool, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
    • Football pool, an association football (soccer) betting pool
• Pool play or group stages, the round robin stage of many sporting championships
• Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery

Geography

• Pool, Cornwall, in England
• Pool, West Virginia, in the United States
• Pool Department, a division of the Republic of the Congo
• Pool-in-Wharfedale, in West Yorkshire, England
• Pool of London, a stretch of the River Thames
• River Pool (London), a river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
• River Pool, Cumbria, a river in Cumbria, England, tributary to the Gilpin

Computing

• Pool (computer science), a set of initialised resources that are kept ready to use
• Connection pool, a cache of database connections maintained by the database
• Memory pool, a dynamic memory allocation method
• Memory Pool System, a memory management system
• Object pool pattern, a pattern to construct sets of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
• Thread pool pattern, a programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks

Media

• Pool (album), an album by John Zorn
• The Pool (2004 film), a short British film
• The Pool (2007 film), a 2007 drama film co-written and directed by Chris Smith
• The Pool (2009 film), an adaptation of the 2006 play
• The Pool (game), a role-playing game by James V. West
• The Pool (play), a 2006 play by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth

Other uses

• Pool (surname), a surname (and list of people with the surname)
• Pooling (resource management), grouping together of resources or effort
  • Press pool, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources
  • Secretarial pool, group of secretaries available to assist executives
• Egyptian pool, a water symbol used in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
• Risk pool

See also

• Gene pool, complete set of unique alleles in a species or population
• Poel, an island in the Baltic Sea
• Pool Group, a trio of inter-war experimental artists and film-makers
• Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water
• Poole (disambiguation)
• Poul, a given name
• Winter Pool, a part of the admissions process for Cambridge University
• All pages with titles containing "pool"