Pit or PIT may refer to:

Structure

Ball pit A ball pit (originally called a ball crawl, also known as a ball pool or ball pond) is a padded box or pool filled with small colorful hollow plastic balls generally no larger than in diameter. They are typically marketed as recreation and exe ...

, a recreation structure * Casino pit, the part of a casino which holds gaming tables * Trapping pit, pits used for hunting *

Pit (motor racing) In motorsports, a pit stop is a pause for refuelling, new tyres, repairs, mechanical adjustments, a driver change, as a penalty, or any combination of the above. These stops occur in an area called the pits, most commonly accessed via a pit la ...

, an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted * Trading pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place *

Pit cave A pit cave, shaft cave or vertical cave—or often simply called a pit (in the US) and pothole or pot (in the UK); jama in South Slavic languages scientific and colloquial vocabulary (borrowed since early research in the Western Balkan Dinaric ...

, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft * Mine (mining) ** Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals ** Coal mine or pit

Science and technology

* Pit, an excavation on metallic surface caused by pitting corrosion * Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a compact disc * Pit, a seed inside a fruit; for example a

cherry pit A cherry is the fruit of many plants of the genus ''Prunus'', and is a fleshy drupe (stone fruit). Commercial cherries are obtained from cultivars of several species, such as the sweet ''Prunus avium'' and the sour ''Prunus cerasus''. The nam ...

* Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon * Powered industrial truck, a US legal term * Programmable interval timer, a computing device * Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion *

Pit (botany) Pits are relatively thinner portions of the cell wall that adjacent cells can communicate or exchange fluid through. Pits are characteristic of cell walls with secondary layers. Generally each pit has a complementary pit opposite of it in the n ...

, a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids *

Pyrena A pyrena or pyrene (commonly called a "pit" or "stone") is the fruitstone within a drupe or drupelet produced by the ossification of the endocarp or lining of the fruit. It consists of a hard endocarp tissue surrounding one or more seeds (also ...

, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches and olives * Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics * Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra * Pit bull, a breed of dog *

2-Propanoyl-3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-tropane 2-Propanoyl-3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-tropane (WF-31, PIT) is a cocaine analogue which acts as a serotonin-norepinephrine-dopamine reuptake inhibitor (SNDRI). Research shows WF-31 to be approximately ten times more potent than cocaine at binding to ...

, a cocaine analog * As a file extension, .pit stands for ''

Partition Partition may refer to: Computing Hardware * Disk partitioning, the division of a hard disk drive * Memory partition, a subdivision of a computer's memory, usually for use by a single job Software * Partition (database), the division of a ...

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Arts and entertainment

Games

* ''Pit'' (game), a Parker Brothers card game simulating a commodities exchange * Pit (''Kid Icarus''), the main character in the video game series ''Kid Icarus'' * ''Pits'' (card game), a card game similar to whist and rummy

Music

Front ensemble In a marching band, drum and bugle corps, or indoor percussion ensemble, the front ensemble or pit is the stationary percussion ensemble. This ensemble is typically placed in front of the football field, though some designers may use atypical layo ...

, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps *

Mosh pit Moshing (also known as slam dancing or simply slamming) is an extreme style of dancing in which participants push or slam into each other, typically performed to "aggressive" live music such as heavy metal and punk rock. Moshing usually happen ...

, an area for dancing at a concert * Orchestra pit, the area in a theater, between the stage and audience, in which musicians perform

Places

United States

Pit River The Pit River is a major river draining from northeastern California into the state's Central Valley. The Pit, the Klamath and the Columbia are the only three rivers in the U.S. that cross the Cascade Range. The longest tributary of the Sacr ...

, a watershed in California *

Peoples Improv Theater The Peoples Improv Theater (PIT), also known as the PIT, is a comedy theater and training center in New York City, founded by comedian Ali Farahnakian in 2002. Shows combine improvisational comedy, sketch comedy, stand-up, theater, and variety. Ea ...

, a venue in New York City * Pittsburgh (abbreviation), a city in Pennsylvania * Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA code) * PIT Solutions, an Indian IT company

Sports

An abbreviation for Pittsburgh sports teams, such as: *

Pittsburgh Steelers The Pittsburgh Steelers are a professional American football team based in Pittsburgh. The Steelers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) North division. Founded in , the Steel ...

, a football team in the NFL *

Pittsburgh Pirates The Pittsburgh Pirates are an American professional baseball team based in Pittsburgh. The Pirates compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central division. Founded as part of the American Associati ...

, a baseball team in the MLB * Pittsburgh Penguins, a hockey team in the NHL *

Pittsburgh Condors The Pittsburgh Condors were a professional basketball team in the original American Basketball Association (ABA). Originally called the Pittsburgh Pipers, they were a charter franchise of the ABA and captured the first league title. The team pla ...

, a former basketball team in the NBA

Other uses

* Party of Independence and Labour, a Senegalese political party * PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits * Pit Martin (1943–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player