Pick may refer to:

Places

Pick City, North Dakota Pick City is a town in Mercer County, North Dakota, Mercer County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 123 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Pick City was founded in 1946 and named after Lewis A. Pick, director of the Miss ...

, a town in the United States *

Pick Lake (Cochrane District, Ontario) Pick Lake is a small endorheic lake in Timmins, Cochrane District, Ontario, Canada. It is about long and wide, and lies at an elevation of about northwest of the Timmins neighbourhood of Connaught and west of Frederick House Lake. See also ...

, a lake in Canada *

Pick Lake (Thunder Bay District) Pick Lake is a lake in Thunder Bay District, Ontario, Canada. It is shaped like a pickaxe A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for Leverage (mechanics), prying. Its head is typically metal, attached perpend ...

, a lake in Canada * Pick Mere, a lake in

Pickmere Pickmere is a village and civil parish near Knutsford in the Borough of Cheshire East. It has a population of 541.Pick (surname), a list of people with this name * nickname of

Percy Charles Pickard Group Captain Percy Charles "Pick" Pickard, (16 May 1915 – 18 February 1944) was an officer in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. He served as a pilot and commander, and was the first officer of the RAF to be awarded the DSO thr ...

(1915–1944), British Royal Air Force pilot *

Pick Temple Lafayette Parker "Pick" Temple (January 20, 1911 - December 21 1991) was a cowboy folksinger who starred in ''The Pick Temple Giant Ranch'' television show from 1948 through 1961. Early life and career Temple was born and grew up in the Washingto ...

(1911–1991), American folk singer and children's television star *

Pick Withers David "Pick" Withers (born 4 April 1948) is an English rock and jazz drummer. He was the original drummer of rock band Dire Straits and played on their first four albums, which included hit singles such as "Sultans of Swing", "Romeo and Juliet" ...

(born 1948), drummer for the English rock band Dire Straits

Arts, entertainment, and media

Plectrum A plectrum is a small flat tool used for plucking or strumming of a stringed instrument. For hand-held instruments such as guitars and mandolins, the plectrum is often called a pick and is held as a separate tool in the player's hand. In harpsic ...

or pick, a device for strumming a stringed instrument :*

Guitar pick A guitar pick (American English) is a plectrum used for guitars. Picks are generally made of one uniform material—such as some kind of plastic (nylon, Delrin, celluloid), rubber, felt, tortoiseshell, wood, metal, glass, tagua, or stone. They ...

, specific to guitars and similar instruments *

The Picks The Picks was an American vocal quartet that backed Buddy Holly and the Crickets' band on nine of the first twelve Crickets releases on Brunswick in 1957, as well as backing Buddy Holly solos for group sounds. The original members were John P ...

, a vocal quartet which backed Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957 *

Pick (TV channel) Pick (formerly Sky 3 and Pick TV) is a British free-to-air television channel, owned by Sky UK. History Sky Three launched on 31st October 2005. It was essentially a barker channel for Sky's main entertainment channel Sky One and its other s ...

, a British television channel * "

The Pick "The Pick" is the 53rd episode of the sitcom ''Seinfeld''. It is the 13th episode of the fourth season, and first aired on December 16, 1992. In this episode, Elaine mistakenly mails out a Christmas card in which her nipple is exposed to all he ...

", an episode of the television show ''Seinfeld'' * Odds and evens or pick, a hand game *

Pick (film) ''Pick'' is a 2019 Canadian short drama film, directed by Alicia K. Harris.Mike Adler"With PICK, Scarborough filmmaker shows a choice black girls face" '' Toronto.com'', November 15, 2019. The film stars Hazel Downey as Alliyah, a young Black Can ...

, short drama film, directed by Alicia K. Harris

Science and math

Pick operating system The Pick Operating System (Pick System or Pick) is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system based around a MultiValue database. Pick is used primarily for business data processing. It is named after one of ...

, a computer operating system *

Pick's disease Frontotemporal dementia (FTD), or frontotemporal degeneration disease, or frontotemporal neurocognitive disorder, encompasses several types of dementia involving the progressive degeneration of frontal and temporal lobes. FTDs broadly present as ...

, a neurodegenerative disease *

Pick's theorem In geometry, Pick's theorem provides a formula for the area of a simple polygon with integer vertex coordinates, in terms of the number of integer points within it and on its boundary. The result was first described by Georg Alexander Pick in 18 ...

in geometry *

Sertoli cell nodule A Sertoli cell nodule is a benign proliferation of Sertoli cells that arises in association with cryptorchidism (undescended testis). They are not composed of a clonal cell population, i.e. neoplastic; thus, technically, they should not be calle ...

, also known as Pick's adenoma, a medical disorder

Sports

*Pick, slang term for an

interception In ball-playing competitive team sports, an interception or pick is a move by a player involving a pass of the ball—whether by foot or hand, depending on the rules of the sport—in which the ball is intended for a player of the same team b ...

Draft (sports) A draft is a process used in some countries (especially in North America) and sports (especially in closed leagues) to allocate certain players to teams. In a draft, teams take turns selecting from a pool of eligible players. When a team selec ...

pick, the right to choose a player, or the player chosen *

Screen (sports) A screen is a blocking move by an offensive player in which they stand beside or behind a defender in order to free a teammate to either shoot a pass or drive in to score. In basketball and field lacrosse, it is also known as a pick. Screens can ...

, also called a pick, a blocking move used against a defender

Tools and weapons

Afro pick A comb is a tool consisting of a shaft that holds a row of teeth for pulling through the hair to clean, untangle, or style it. Combs have been used since prehistoric times, having been discovered in very refined forms from settlements dating ba ...

, a type of comb for kinky, coiled hair *

Horseman's pick The horseman's pick was a weapon of Middle Eastern origin used by cavalry during the Middle Ages in Europe and the Middle East. This was a type of war hammer that had a very long spike on the reverse of the hammer head. Usually, this spike was sl ...

, a weapon used by medieval cavalry units in Europe *

Ice pick The ice pick is a pointed metal tool used from the 1800s to the 1900s to break, pick or chip at ice. The design consists of a sharp metal spike attached to a wooden handle. The tool's design has been relatively unchanged since its creation. The ...

Lockpick (disambiguation) A lockpick is a tool used in lockpicking. Lockpick may also refer to: * Earwig Lockpicker, a fictional character in the Kender fantasy race * Remo Lockpick, another fictional Kender character, uncle to Tasslehoff Burrfoot * ''Lockpick Pornograph ...

, a tool used for lock picking *

Pickaxe A pickaxe, pick-axe, or pick is a generally T-shaped hand tool used for Leverage (mechanics), prying. Its head is typically metal, attached perpendicularly to a longer handle, traditionally made of wood, occasionally metal, and increasingly ...

, a hand tool *

Toothpick A toothpick is a small thin stick of wood, plastic, bamboo, metal, bone or other substance with at least one and sometimes two pointed ends to insert between teeth to remove detritus, usually after a meal. Toothpicks are also used for festive ...

Other uses

Pick (hieroglyph) The ancient Egyptian Pick hieroglyph, Gardiner sign listed nos. U17, U18 is a portrayal of a 'pick upon the side view of a block'; it is in the Gardiner subset for ''agriculture, crafts, and professions''. In the Egyptian language, the ''pic ...

, an ancient Egyptian symbol representing the tool *

Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya The Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya (PICK) is a political party in Kenya. History PICK was established in 1992 by former Olympic Shooter John Harun Mwau.Robert M. Maxon, Thomas P. Ofcansky (2014) ''Historical Dictionary of Kenya'', Row ...

(or PICK), a political party in Kenya *

Pick stitch A pick stitch in sewing is a simple running stitch that catches only a few threads of the fabric, showing very little of the thread on the right side (outer side) of the garment. It is also sometimes known as "stab stitch". A pick stitch can be mad ...

, in sewing *

Pick Szeged Pick Szeged is a Hungarian company that produces a variety of meat products, most notably Winter salami. It was founded in 1869, and remains based in Szeged, Hungary. The company sponsors the Hungarian handball team SC Pick Szeged. Winter salam ...

, a Hungarian meat company