Pit or PIT may refer to:
Structure
Ball pit, a recreation structure Casino pit, the part of a casino which holds gaming tables Trapping pit, pits used for hunting Pit (motor racing), an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted Trading pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft Mine (mining) Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals Coal mine or pit
Science and technology Pit, an excavation on metallic surface caused by pitting corrosion Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a compact disc Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon Pit bull, a breed of dog PIT tag, Passive Integrated Transponder for RFID system Powered industrial truck, a US legal term Point in time, time and date something took place Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics Programmable interval timer, a computing device Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion Pyrena or pit, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches, olives and cherries Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra Polynomial identity testing, the problem of efficiently determining whether two multivariate polynomials are identical. 2-Propanoyl-3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-tropane, a cocaine analog As a file extension, .pit stands for Partition Information Table
Arts and entertainment Games Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange Pit (Kid Icarus), the main character in the video game series Kid Icarus
Music Front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert Orchestra pit, the area in a theater, between the stage and audience, in which musicians perform
People Pit Martin (1943–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player Pit Seng Low (born 1995), Australian badminton player Pit Schubert (1935–2024), German author and mountain climber Pit Schlechter (born 1990), Luxembourgish cyclist Pit Passarell (1968–2024), Brazilian heavy metal and rock musician Alfred Lépine (1901–1955), Canadian ice hockey player and coach Pit Leyder (born 1997), Luxembourgish cyclist Pit Kroke (1936–2016), German architect and artist Pit Gilman (1864–1950), American baseball player Pit Corder (1918–1990), English linguist Pit Brandenburger (born 1995), Luxembourgish swimmer Pit Beirer (born 1972), German motocross racer and team manager
Places United States Pit River, a watershed in California Peoples Improv Theater, a venue in New York City Pittsburgh (abbreviation), a city in Pennsylvania Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA code)
Sports An abbreviation for Pittsburgh sports teams, such as: Pittsburgh Steelers, a football team in the NFL Pittsburgh Pirates, a baseball team in MLB Pittsburgh Penguins, a hockey team in the NHL Pittsburgh Condors, a former basketball team in the NBA
Transport Palitana railway station, Gujarat, India, Indian Railways station code PIT
Other uses Party of Independence and Labour (), a Senegalese political party Ivorian Workers' Party (), an Ivorian political party PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits Bie (surname), Chinese surname also romanized as Pit Pit organ, an organ present in snakes used to sense infrared light
See also The Pit (disambiguation) Pitt (disambiguation) Pitts (disambiguation) PITS (disambiguation) Bolshoy Pit, a tributary of the Yenisei, Russia Pituitary-specific positive transcription factor 1 (PIT-1), a gene Bottomless pit (disambiguation) Cockpit Hole (disambiguation) Fossa (disambiguation), (Latin for pit)