Pool

• Pond, largely synonymous • 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 ==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 • Pool (film) (), a 2007 short film • Pools (film), 2025 American film, written and directed by Sam Hayes • 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 Video games • Pool (video game), a 1983 sports game • Pools (video game), 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 ==See also==