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, a gaming manoeuvre. (alt: "Take a pass" or "I pass". To decline an opportunity or turn at play or allow the game to continue withour your participation in this round of play. Also used in social situations, to 'pass on' (decline) an invitation to participate. See 'Rain Check'.
• 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
• ABB PASS High Voltage Switchgear modules produced by ABB

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)