Pool

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
• Vernal pools, seasonal pools of water that provide habitat for distinctive plants and animals.

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
• 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

Video games

• Pool, a 1983 sports game.
• Pools, a 2024 horror walking simulator. Often stylised as POOLS.

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