Pad or pads may refer to:

Wearables

Pads Pads (also called leg guards) are a type of protective equipment used in a number of sports and serve to protect the legs from the impact of a hard ball, puck, or other object of play travelling at high speed which could otherwise cause injuries t ...

, protective equipment used in baseball, cricket, and hockey ** Elbow pad **

Knee pad Knee pads or kneepads are protective gear worn on knees to protect them against impact injury from falling to the ground or hitting an obstacle, or to provide padding for extended kneeling. Use Sports Knee pads are worn in many recreationa ...

** Shoulder pads (sport) * Menstrual pad, used to absorb menstrual or other vaginal blood *

Incontinence pad An incontinence pad is a small, impermeable multi-layered sheet with high absorbency that is used in the incontinence and health-care industries as a precaution against fecal or urinary incontinence. It is generally made of cotton if washable, or p ...

, worn to absorb involuntarily expelled bodily fluids * Shoulder pads (fashion), fabric-covered padding in clothing

Computing and electronics

Input devices

* Gamepad, joypad, or controller, an input device used in gaming *

Graphics pad A graphics tablet (also known as a digitizer, digital graphic tablet, pen tablet, drawing tablet, external drawing pad or digital art board) is a computer input device that enables a user to hand-draw images, animations and graphics, with a spec ...

, a computer input device * Keypad, buttons arranged in a block * Touchpad or trackpad, a pointing device featuring a tactile sensor * Trigger pad, an electronic sensor on a drum

Other hardware

* Contact pad, the designated surface area for an electrical contact * A resistive pad used in an attenuator * An electronic

notebook A notebook (also known as a notepad, writing pad, drawing pad, or legal pad) is a book or stack of paper pages that are often ruled and used for purposes such as note-taking, journaling or other writing, drawing, or scrapbooking. History ...

GRiDPad GRiDPad was a trademarked name for a series of pen computing tablets built by Grid Systems Corporation. The GRiDPad 1900, released in 1989, is regarded as the first commercially successful tablet computer. Jeff Hawkins went on to use the GRiD ...

, known as first commercial tablet computer * iPad, a tablet computer made by Apple * ThinkPad, a laptop brand first designed and produced by IBM, but now owned by Lenovo * WatchPad, discontinued IBM smartwatch line * WorkPad, discontinued line of PDA, branded by IBM

Other uses in computing and electronics

* One-time pad, a method of cryptography

Transportation

* Brake pad, part of a drum brake * Launch pad, an area where spacecraft start flight *

Helicopter landing pad A helipad is a landing area or platform for helicopters and powered lift aircraft. While helicopters and powered lift aircraft are able to operate on a variety of relatively flat surfaces, a fabricated helipad provides a clearly marked hard s ...

* Roll way or running pad, placed along the rails of metro or tram tracks

Music

* Pad, some holes of woodwind instruments (clarinets, saxophones...) are closed by air-tight pads. * Soft, mellow timbres generated by

synthesiser A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and f ...

s are often called ''pads'', and are generally used as backing sounds.

Other uses

* Part of a mammal's paw *

Pad, Roane County, West Virginia Pad is an extinct town in Roane County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American Geographers classify West Vi ...

* A paper

* San Diego Padres, a Major League Baseball team nicknamed the "Pads"