A pyramid is a structure with triangular lateral surfaces converging to an apex. Pyramid may also refer to:

Anatomy and medicine

* Petrous part of the temporal bone, the pyramid * Pyramid (brainstem), the anterior part of medulla oblongata

Games and sport

* Pyramid (solitaire), a card game * Pyramid (drinking game), a card game that is most commonly used as a drinking game * ''Schaper Toys#Puzzling Pyramid, Puzzling Pyramid'', magnetic puzzle game released in 1960. * Pyramid (video game), ''Pyramid'' (video game), a 1990s Nintendo game by American Video Entertainment * ''Pyramid 2000'', a 1980s TRS-80 Color Computer interactive fiction text game based on the Colossal Cave Adventure * Human pyramid, a vertically oriented, triangular or pyramid-shaped formation of people * Pyramid pool, or pyramids, a cue sport played mainly in the 19th century * Russian pyramid, known as "pyramid", a pool/snooker type game * League system, a hierarchy of leagues in a given sport * Pyramid, a three-dimensional chess variant * Pyramid, a fictional sport in the science-fiction TV show ''Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series) , Battlestar Galactica''

Television and film

* Several television game shows with the same format, created by Bob Stewart (television producer), Bob Stewart and now controlled by Sony Pictures Television: ** Pyramid (game show), ''Pyramid'' (game show), the United States versions since 1973, including ''The $25,000 Pyramid'' and ''Junior Pyramid'' ** Pyramid (Australian game show), ''Pyramid'' (Australian game show), a children's quiz show in Australia since 2009, based on the U.S. ''Junior Partner Pyramid'' * ''The PyraMMMid'', 2011 crime film * The Pyramid (film), ''The Pyramid'' (film), 2014 horror film * The Pyramid (TV series), ''The Pyramid'' (TV series), a Croatian weekly talk and debate competition television show begun in 2004 * "The Pyramid", a 1978 List of The Bionic Woman episodes, episode of ''The Bionic Woman''

Publications and publishing

* Pyramid (magazine), ''Pyramid'' (magazine), a gaming magazine * Pyramids (novel), ''Pyramids'' (novel), a 1989 Terry Pratchett book of the Discworld series * The Pyramid (Golding novel), ''The Pyramid'' (Golding novel), a 1967 novel by William Golding * The Pyramid (Kadare novel), ''The Pyramid'' (Kadare novel), a 1995 Albanian novel by Ismail Kadare * The Pyramid (short stories), ''The Pyramid'' (short stories), by Henning Mankell, published first as ''Pyramiden'' in Swedish in 1999 and afterwards in English in 2008 * Pyramid Books, a publishing company

Music

* Pyramid (band), an American experimental, indie-rock band from North Carolina and active since the early 2000s * Pyramids, an American experimental group on Hydra Head Records in the 2000s, from Texas ** Pyramids (album), ''Pyramids'' (album), their 2008 debut studio album * The Pyramids (band), an American surf rock group in the 1960s, from California * The Pyramids, a jazz and world music group formed in the 1970s and led by Idris Ackamoor * Symarip, a British reggae group also known as The Pyramids, active from the 1960s to the 1970s * Starfucker, an indie-electronica band from Oregon, started in 2007 as Pyramid or Pyramiddd * Pyramid (The Alan Parsons Project album), ''Pyramid'' (The Alan Parsons Project album), 1978 * Pyramid (Modern Jazz Quartet album), ''Pyramid'' (Modern Jazz Quartet album), 1960 * Pyramid (Cannonball Adderley album), ''Pyramid'' (Cannonball Adderley album), 1974 * Pyramid (Lee Konitz album), ''Pyramid'' (Lee Konitz album) * Pyramid Rock Festival, in Victoria, Australia ; Songs * Pyramid (song), "Pyramid" (song), by Charice * Pyramids (song), "Pyramids" (song), by Frank Ocean * "Pyramid", a song by Wolfmother on the album ''Wolfmother (album), Wolfmother'' * "Pyramid", a song by Two Door Cinema Club * "Pyramid", an instrumental song by Incognito (band)

Places

Canada

* The Pyramid (British Columbia), a lava dome in British Columbia * Pyramid Mountain (Wells Gray-Clearwater), a subglacial mound in British Columbia * Pyramid Lake (Alberta)

United States

* Pyramid, Illinois, an unincorporated community * Pyramid, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Pyramid, Nevada, an unincorporated community * Pyramid Lake (El Dorado County, California) * Pyramid Lake (Los Angeles County, California) * Pyramid Lake (Nevada) * Pyramid Peak (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

* Egyptian_pyramids, The Egyptian Pyramids, especially the Giza_pyramid_complex, Pyramids at Giza * Pyramids (Bathgate), a land sculpture in West Lothian, Scotland * The Pyramids, a rock formation at Victory Beach, New Zealand * The Pyramid (Chatham Islands), a small island in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand * The Pyramid (Antarctica), a distinctive peak in Victoria Land, Antarctica * Pyramid, Maribor, a low hill in the city of Maribor, Slovenia * Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico *Pyramiden, an abandoned Soviet coal mining settlement on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard

Buildings

* Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre), one large and three smaller glass and metal pyramids in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France * Portsmouth Pyramids Centre, a leisure complex in the UK * Memphis Pyramid, in Memphis, Tennessee * The Pyramids (Indianapolis), an office development in Indiana * Walter Pyramid (formerly Long Beach Pyramid), a stadium in California

In business

* Pyramid scheme, a non-sustainable business model * Pyramid Breweries, a brewing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington * Pyramid Building Society, an Australian company which collapsed in 1990 * Pyramid Technology, a defunct computer company based in California from 1981 to 1995 * The Pyramid Companies, an American shopping mall developer founded in 1970

Science and technology

* Pyramid (geometry), a polyhedron formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex * Pyramid (image processing), a type of multi-scale signal representation * Pyramid (web framework), an open source web application framework written in Python * The codename of a project aiming to rewrite Microsoft Word from scratch * Ecological pyramid

Other uses

* A type of Organization#Pyramids or hierarchies, organizational structure * Hierarchy