Passing may refer to:

Social identity

* Passing (sociology), presenting oneself as a member of another sociological group ** Passing (gender), presenting oneself as being cisgender ** Passing (racial identity), presenting oneself as a member of another race

Literature and film

* ''Passing'' (novel), a novel by Nella Larsen ** ''Passing'' (film), directed by Rebecca Hall (2021), based on Larsen's novel

Math and technology

* Message passing, a form of communication in computer science * Token passing, a channel access method in telecommunications *

Variational message passing Variational message passing (VMP) is an approximate inference technique for continuous- or discrete-valued Bayesian networks, with conjugate-exponential parents, developed by John Winn. VMP was developed as a means of generalizing the approximate v ...

, a mathematical technique for continuous-valued Bayesian networks

Sports

* Passing (sports), to pass a ball or puck between members of the same team ** Passing (American football) ** Passing (association football), or soccer * Passing (juggling), when two or more people share a juggling pattern

Transportation

* Passing, overtaking, the act of driving around a slower automobile * Passing lane, a lane on a road for use while overtaking * Passing loop, a section of railway where trains can pass each other

Other uses

* Buck passing, or passing the buck, transferring responsibility to another * Passing away, euphemism for " dying" * A syncope is an instance of passing out, also called fainting or losing consciousness *

Passing off Passing off is a common law tort which can be used to enforce unregistered trade mark rights. The tort of passing off protects the goodwill of a trader from misrepresentation. The law of passing off prevents one trader from misrepresenting go ...