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Pool may refer to:

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

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

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