Pool may refer to:

Bodies of water

Swimming pool A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, paddling pool, or simply pool, is a structure designed to hold water to enable Human swimming, swimming and associated activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built abo ...

, 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 plunge pool (or plunge basin or waterfall lake) is a deep depression in a stream bed at the base of a waterfall or Shut-in (river), shut-in. It is created by the erosion, erosional forces of cascading water on the rocks at the formation's bas ...

, 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) Pool is a series of cue sports played on a billiard table. The table has six Pocket (billiards), pockets along the , into which Billiard ball, balls are shot. "Pool billiards" is sometimes hyphenated and/or spelled with a singular "billiard". T ...

, a group of games played on a pool table * Pool (poker) or

pot (poker) The pot in poker refers to the sum of money that players wager during a single hand or game, according to the betting rules of the variant being played. It is likely that the word ''pot'' is related to or derived from the word '' jackpot''. At ...

, 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 Harlequin (, , ; , ) is the best-known of the comic servant characters (Zanni) from the Italian commedia dell'arte, associated with the city of Bergamo. The role is traditionally believed to have been introduced by the Italian actor-manager Zan ...

* 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) (), a 2007 short film

Video games

* '' Pool'', a 1983 sports game * '' Pools'', a 2024 horror walking simulator

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 * The Pool (magazine) a defunct online women's magazine

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) In resource management, pooling is the grouping together of resources (assets, equipment, personnel, effort, etc.) for the purposes of maximizing advantage or minimizing risk to the users. The term is used in finance, computing and equipment mana ...

, 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