Pass

Pass, PASS, The Pass or Passed may refer to:

Places

 * Pass, County Meath, a townland in Ireland
 * Pass, Poland, a village in Poland
 * Pass, an alternate term for a number of straits: see List of straits
 * Mountain pass, a lower place in a mountain range allowing easier passage

Permissions

 * Pass (military), permission for military personnel to be away from their unit
 * Backstage pass, allows admission to backstage areas of a performance venue
 * Press pass, grants special privilege or access to journalists
 * Season ticket, or season pass
 * Ticket (admission), also called a pass
 * Transit pass, permitting travel, including:
 * Boarding pass, allows a passenger to board an aircraft
 * Continent pass, a pass allowing air travel within a continent

People

 * A Pass (born 1987), Ugandan musician
 * Frank Alexander de Pass, English soldier, first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War I
 * Joe Pass (1929–1994), American jazz musician
 * John Pass (engraver) (c.1783–1832), English engraver
 * John Pass (poet) (born 1947), British-born Canadian poet
 * Nelson Pass (born 1951), American designer of audio amplifiers
 * Patrick Pass (born 1977), American football player

Arts, entertainment, and media

 * Battle pass, a type of monetization and reward system in video games
 * Pass (cards), to make no bid when it is one's turn to do so
 * A type of card manipulation in close-up magic
 * Passed (band), a Hungarian band formed in the summer of 2014
 * "The Pass" (song), a song by the band Rush, from their 1989 album Presto
 * The Pass (1988 film), a Soviet animated short film
 * The Pass (2016 film), a film by Ben A. Williams based on the play by John Donnelly about football and homosexuality
 * Pro-Am Sports System, or PASS Sports, a former Detroit-area cable television channel

Businesses and organizations

 * The Pass Casino in Henderson, Nevada, United States
 * Pass Labs, an audio company based in Foresthill, California, United States
 * Professional Association for SQL Server, a global Microsoft SQL Server community group
 * Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, an AFL–CIO affiliated union

Education

 * Pass, a term used in grading to indicate a student has successfully completed academic requirements
 * Peer-Assisted Study Sessions, an academic support program often used in higher education

Law and government

 * Pass (legislature), the action of approving a proposed law
 * Pass laws, apartheid laws in South Africa which limited the movement of some people
 * Pass Plus, a UK scheme to improve driving skills among young drivers
 * Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS), a standardized test taken in South Carolina, USA
 * Proof of Age Standards Scheme (PASS), an age identification program in the UK

Computing

 * Pass (software), a command line based password manager for Unix systems
 * PASS Sample Size Software, a computer program for estimating sample size
 * Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive Theory, a learning and intelligence model
 * Platform as a service, usually spelled PaaS, a category of cloud computing services

Other uses in science and technology

 * Pass (spaceflight), the period in which a satellite or other spacecraft is visible above the local horizon
 * PASS device, a personal safety device used by firefighters entering a hazardous environment
 * Plasma Acoustic Shield System, a disorientating weapon based on plasma explosions
 * The Pass (psychoanalysis), a procedure

Sport

 * Pass (ice hockey), the movement of the puck from one player to another
 * Basketball pass
 * Forward pass, in American and Canadian football
 * Lateral pass or onside pass, in American and Canadian football respectively
 * Passing (association football)
 * Pro All Stars Series, a super late model racing series
 * Rugby passes (disambiguation)
 * "The Pass", nickname for the 1996 CART Monterey Grand Prix

Other uses

 * Pass (sleight of hand), a sleight of hand move
 * Performer Availability Screening Services, a U.S. STI screening database