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'''Pool''' may refer to: 
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==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
* [[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 (software company)|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 network#Pooling layer|convolutional neural networks]]

==Arts and entertainment==
===Music===
* [[Pool (John Zorn album)|''Pool'' (John Zorn album)]], 1980
* [[Pool (Porches album)|''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 (album)|Zaba]]''
* "Pools", a 2017 song by Sløtface from the album ''[[Try Not to Freak Out]]''

===Film===
* [[The Pool (2001 film)|''The Pool'' (2001 film)]], German horror film also known as ''Swimming Pool''
* [[The Pool (2007 film)|''The Pool'' (2007 film)]], co-written and directed by Chris Smith
* [[The Pool (2009 film)|''The Pool'' (2009 film)]], adaptation of the 2006 play
* [[The Pool (2018 film)|''The Pool'' (2018 film)]], Thai survival thriller film
* [[Pool (film)|''Pool'' (film)]] ({{langx|id|Kolam|link=no}}), a 2007 short film

===Video games===
* ''[[Pool (video game)|Pool]]'', a 1983 sports game
* ''[[Pools (video game)|Pools]]'', a 2024 horror [[walking simulator]]

===Other uses in arts and entertainment===
* [[The Pool (play)|''The Pool'' (play)]], by James Brough and Helen Elizabeth, 2006
* "The Pool", an episode of the TV series ''Mayor of Kingstown'', [[Mayor of Kingstown#Season 2 (2023)|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 [[List of United Kingdom locations: Po-Poz#Poo-Pop|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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