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pooling

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
- Capitol Reflection Pool, western most 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 filled with seawater

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 (poker), money wagered during a single hand of poker
Pool checkers, variant of checkers (draughts)
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 play, round robin stage of many sporting championships
Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery

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
Object pool, set of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
Connection pool, cache of database connections maintained by the database

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
Gene pool, complete set of unique alleles in a species or population
Pool-type reactor, nuclear reactor that has a core immersed in an open pool of water