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Pool, pools, pooling, etc., may refer to:

Bodies of water

• Swimming pool, an artificially enclosed body of water intended for swimming and/or diving
• Reflecting pool, a shallow pool of water designed to reflect a structure
• Stream pool, a quiet slow moving portion of a stream
• Another term for pond, a body of water smaller than a lake
• Another term for puddle, a very small body of water

Sports, games and gambling

• A colloquial term for pocket billiards, a family of cue sports including eight-ball, nine-ball, straight pool and one-pocket among others.
• Pool betting (see also next entry), an obsolete term for parimutuel betting, in which all bets of the same type are placed together, fees taken, and odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets; the origin of the term for pocket billiards (above)
• Betting pool (sports lotto, office pool); modern parimutuel-like betting but with a lottery-influenced fixed wager (often a literal ticket price), and no odds calculation

• Football pools ("the pools"), football (soccer) betting-pool gambling, especially the UK
• Footy pool, Australian-rules football gambling, more commonly called footy tipping
• Hockey pool, a simplified version of fantasy hockey
• Death pool, a game of prediction which involves guessing when someone will die (see also assassination politics)
• See also fantasy football (American), fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, etc.

• Another term for pot (poker), the money wagered during a single hand or game
• Pool checkers, a variant of checkers (draughts)
• Pool play, another name for the group stage of a sports tournament such as a World Cup
• 'Pool, nickname of football (soccer) club Liverpool F.C.
• Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery

Resources

Things may be said to be "pooled" when put together for practical reasons:

General

• Pooling (resource management), the grouping together of resources or effort, in any of a wide range of disciplines, but most especially finance (see this article for a number of specific variants).

Statistics and biology

• Pooling in statistics, the aggregation of measured values into classes for the construction of frequency scales, to avoid zeros and excessive random fluctuation.

• More specifically, in biology, pooling refers to the collection of multiple samples to represent one sample of weighted value.

Human resources

• Secretarial pool^[clarify]
• Press pool^[clarify]

Computing

• Memory pool^[clarify]
• Thread pool pattern^[clarify]
• Object pool^[clarify]
• Connection pool^[clarify]

Geography

• Pool Region, in the Republic of the Congo
• Pool-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire
• River Pool^[clarify]
• Pool, Cornwall

Persons

• Albert-Jan Pool^[clarify]
• (1917–1984), Jewish-American pioneer in the development of social science

Other spellings

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

Companies and organizations

• , motor fuel sold in the United Kingdom during World War II. It was a mixture of fuels supplied by several companies.
• POOL, the stock ticker symbol of the
• , a literary magazine

Other

• Pool-type reactor, a kind of nuclear reactor
• "Pooling", an informal jargon term for the temporary darkening of a spot on an LCD/TFT flat-panel display when pushed on with a finger or other object