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

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) (Indonesian: Kolam), a 2007 short film

Other uses in arts and entertainment
The Pool (play), by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth, 2006
Pool (website), a defunct Australian Broadcasting Corporation social media site

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
Poel, an island in the Baltic Sea
Poole (disambiguation)
Poul, a given name
Pooling, or group testing, in statistics
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