About Pool

Swimming Pool

A swimming pool, swimming bath, wading pool, or paddling pool is a structure designed to hold water to enable swimming or other leisure activities. Pools can be built into the ground (in-ground pools) or built above ground (as a freestanding construction or as part of a building or other larger structure), and are also a common feature aboard ocean-liners and cruise ships. In-ground pools are most commonly constructed from materials such as concrete, natural stone, metal, plastic or fiberglass, and can be of a custom size and shape or built to a standardized size, the largest of which is the Olympic-size swimming pool.

Water pool :

1. Swimming pool, a usually artificial container of water intended for swimming
2. Reflecting pool, a shallow pool designed to reflect a structure and its surroundings
3. Tide pool, a rocky pool on an ocean shore that remains filled with seawater when the tide goes out
4. Plunge pool, a small, deep body of water
5. Stream pool, a quiet slow-moving portion of a stream
6. Spent fuel pool, a storage facility for used fuel rods from a nuclear reactor.

Sports and gambling :

1. Pool (cue sports), a group of games played on a pool table
2. Pool (poker) or pot, money wagered during a single hand of poker
3. Pool betting or parimutuel betting, a betting system in which all bets of a particular type are placed together
4. Betting pool, a form of pool betting where gamblers pay a fixed price into a pool
5. Football pool, an association football (soccer) betting pool
6. Pool play or group stages, the round robin stage of many sporting championships
7. Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery

Places :

1. Pool, Cornwall, England
2. Pool, West Virginia, United States
3. Pool Department, a division of the Republic of the Congo
4. Pool-in-Wharfedale, in West Yorkshire, England
5. Pool of London, a stretch of the River Thames
6. River Pool (London), a river in England, tributary to the River Ravensbourne
7. River Pool, Cumbria, a river in Cumbria, England, tributary to the Gilpin
8. Computing

Computing :

1. Pool (computer science), a set of initialised resources that are kept ready to use
2. Connection pool, a cache of database connections maintained by the database
3. Memory pool, a dynamic memory allocation method
4. Memory Pool System, a memory management system by Harlequin
5. Object pool pattern, a pattern to construct sets of initialised programming objects that are kept ready to use
6. Thread pool pattern, a programming method where a number of threads are created to perform a number of tasks