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), 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

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), 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