Pad

Pad or pads may refer to:

Wearables

 * Pads, protective equipment used in baseball, cricket, and hockey
 * Elbow pad
 * Knee pad
 * Shoulder pads (sport)
 * Menstrual pad, used to absorb menstrual or other vaginal blood
 * Incontinence pad, worn to absorb involuntarily expelled bodily fluids
 * Shoulder pads (fashion), fabric-covered padding in clothing
 * Cycling pad, found in cycling shorts, pants and tights

Input devices

 * Gamepad, joypad, or controller, an input device used in gaming
 * Graphics pad, a computer input device
 * Keypad, buttons arranged in a block
 * Touchpad or trackpad, a pointing device featuring a tactile sensor
 * Trigger pad, an electronic sensor on a drum

Other hardware

 * Contact pad, the designated surface area for an electrical contact
 * A resistive pad used in an attenuator
 * An electronic notebook
 * A tablet computer
 * GRiDPad, known as first commercial tablet computer
 * iPad, a tablet computer made by Apple
 * ThinkPad, a laptop brand first designed and produced by IBM, but now owned by Lenovo
 * WatchPad, discontinued IBM smartwatch line
 * WorkPad, discontinued line of PDA, branded by IBM

Other uses in computing and electronics

 * One-time pad, a method of cryptography

Transportation

 * Brake pad, part of a drum brake
 * Launch pad, an area where spacecraft start flight
 * Helicopter landing pad
 * Roll way or running pad, placed along the rails of metro or tram tracks

Music

 * Pad, some holes of woodwind instruments (clarinets, saxophones...) are closed by air-tight pads.
 * Soft, mellow timbres generated by synthesisers are often called pads, and are generally used as backing sounds.

Other uses

 * Part of a mammal's paw
 * Pad, Roane County, West Virginia
 * A paper notebook
 * San Diego Padres, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Pads"