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Pool may refer to:
Bodies of water
- Swimming pool, usually an artificial structure containing a large 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
- Salt pannes and pools, a water-retaining depression located within salt and brackish marshes
- 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 (cards), the common pot for stakes or the stakes themselves in card games
- Pool (dominoes), the stock or boneyard in dominoes
- Pool (cue sports), a group of games played on a pool table
- Pool (poker) or pot (poker), 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
- Betting pool, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
- Pool play or group stages, the round-robin stage of many sporting championships
- Singapore Pools, Singapore's national lottery
Computing
- Pool (computer science), a set of initialized 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 initialized 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
- Pooling layer, a form of non-linear down-sampling in convolutional neural networks
Arts and entertainment
Music
- Pool (John Zorn album), 1980
- Pool (Porches album), 2016
- "Pool", a 2017 song by Paramore from the album After Laughter
- "Pools", a 2014 song by Glass Animals from the album Zaba
- "Pools", a 2017 song by Sløtface from the album Try Not to Freak Out
Film
- 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 (2018 film), Thai survival thriller film
- Pool (film) (Indonesian: Kolam), a 2007 short film
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- The Pool (play), by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth, 2006
- "The Pool", an episode of the TV series Mayor of Kingstown, in season 2 (2023)
- Pool (website), a defunct Australian Broadcasting Corporation social media site
Places
England
- Pool, Cornwall, on the mainland, England
- Pool, Isles of Scilly, a location in Cornwall, England
- 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
United States
- Pool, West Virginia, United States
- The Pool (Central Park) in Manhattan, New York, United States
Congo
- Pool Department, a division of the Republic of the Congo
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
See also
- Poel, an island in the Baltic Sea
- Poole (disambiguation)
- Poul, a given name
- Pooling, or group testing, in statistics
- All pages with titles containing pool
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