Pool may refer to:
Bodies of water 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
Video games Pool (video game), a 1983 sports game Pools (video game), a 2024 horror walking simulator
Other uses in arts and entertainment ABC Pool, a defunct Australian Broadcasting Corporation social media site 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) The Pool (magazine), a defunct online women's magazine
Places England Pool, Cornwall, on the mainland Pool, Isles of Scilly, a location in Cornwall Pool-in-Wharfedale, in West Yorkshire 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, US The Pool (Central Park) in Manhattan, New York, US
Congo Pool Department, a division of the Republic of the Congo
Other uses Pool (surname), including a 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