Pit

Pit or PIT may refer to:

Structure

 * Ball pit, a recreation structure
 * Casino pit, the part of a casino which holds gaming tables
 * Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
 * Pit (motor racing), an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
 * Trading pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
 * Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
 * Mine (mining)
 * Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals
 * Coal mine or pit

Science and technology

 * Pit, an excavation on metallic surface caused by pitting corrosion
 * Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a compact disc
 * Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids
 * Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
 * Pit bull, a breed of dog
 * PIT tag, Passive Integrated Transponder for RFID system
 * Powered industrial truck, a US legal term
 * Point in time, time and date something took place
 * Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics
 * Programmable interval timer, a computing device
 * Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
 * Pyrena or pit, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches, olives and cherries
 * Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
 * 2-Propanoyl-3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-tropane, a cocaine analog
 * As a file extension,  stands for Partition Information Table

Games

 * Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange
 * Pit (Kid Icarus), the main character in the video game series Kid Icarus

Music

 * Front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
 * Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert
 * Orchestra pit, the area in a theater, between the stage and audience, in which musicians perform

United States

 * Pit River, a watershed in California
 * Peoples Improv Theater, a venue in New York City
 * Pittsburgh (abbreviation), a city in Pennsylvania
 * Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA code)

Sports
An abbreviation for Pittsburgh sports teams, such as:
 * Pittsburgh Steelers, a football team in the NFL
 * Pittsburgh Pirates, a baseball team in MLB
 * Pittsburgh Penguins, a hockey team in the NHL
 * Pittsburgh Condors, a former basketball team in the NBA

Transport

 * Palitana railway station, Gujarat, India, Indian Railways station code PIT

Other uses

 * Party of Independence and Labour (Parti de l'Indépendance et du Travail), a Senegalese political party
 * Ivorian Workers' Party (Parti ivoirien des travailleurs), an Ivorian political party
 * PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits
 * Pit Martin (1943–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player