Pool may refer to:

Bodies of water

• Plunge pool, small, deep body of water
• The River Pool, river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
• Reflecting pool, shallow pool of water designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings:
• Capitol Reflection Pool, westernmost element of the United States Capitol Building Grounds
• Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, in Washington, D.C.
• Stream pool, a quiet slow moving portion of a stream
• Swimming pool, artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming
• Tide pool, rocky pools by oceans that are remain filled with seawater when the tide goes out

Sports, games and gambling

• Betting pool, form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
• Dead pool, betting pool on the date of death of celebrities
• Hockey pool, simplified version of fantasy hockey
• Football pools, football (soccer) betting pool
• Footy pool, Australian-rules football pool
• Pool betting, betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together in a pool
• Pool billiards, family of games played on a pocket billiards table
• Pool checkers, variant of checkers (draughts)
• Pool play, round robin stage of many sporting championships
• Pool (poker), money wagered during a single hand of poker
• Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery

Computing

• Connection pool, cache of database connections maintained by the database
• Object pool, set of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
• Memory pool, dynamic memory allocation method
• Memory Pool System, memory management system
• Thread pool pattern, programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks

Geography

• Pool, Cornwall, in England
• Pool-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, England
• Pool Region, in the Republic of the Congo
• Pool, West Virginia, in the United States

Persons

• Albert-Jan Pool (b. 1960), Dutch type designer
• Ithiel de Sola Pool (1917–1984), pioneer in the development of social science
• John Pool (1826–1884), Senator from North Carolina
• Walter F. Pool (1850–1883), Congressman from North Carolina

General

• Gene pool, complete set of unique alleles in a species or population
• The Pool (film), a 2007 drama film
• Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water
• Pooling (resource management), grouping together of resources or effort
• Secretarial pool, group of secretaries available to assist executives
• Press pool, group of news gathering organizations pooling their resources

See also

• Poole (disambiguation)
• Poel (disambiguation page)
• Poul (disambiguation page)