Pool

Pool may refer to:

Water pool

Swimming pool, a usually artificial container 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
Spent fuel pool, a storage facility for used fuel rods from a nuclear reactor.

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

Places

Pool, Cornwall, England
Pool, West Virginia, 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 by Harlequin
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

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Media

Pool (album), by John Zorn
"Pool", by Paramore from the album After Laughter
The Pool (2001 film), German horror film also known as Swimming Pool
The Pool (2007 film), co-written and directed by Chris Smith
The Pool (2009 film), adaptation of the 2006 play
The Pool (game), by James V. West
The Pool (play), by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth, 2006

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
Pooled variance, a statistical concept.
Risk pool
Wheat pool