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

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) (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

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