Pontoon may refer to:

Buoyant devices

Float (nautical) A float (also called a pontoon) is an airtight hollow structure, similar to a pressure vessel, designed to provide buoyancy in water. Its principal applications are in hull (watercraft), watercraft hulls, Floatplane, aircraft floats, Floating do ...

, an air-filled structure providing buoyancy * Any of various objects that float on pontoons, including: **

Pontoon (boat) A pleasure boat with two lengthwise pontoons A pontoon boat is a flattish boat that relies on floats to remain buoyant. These pontoons (also called ''tubes'') contain much reserve buoyancy and allow designers to create large deck plans fitted w ...

, a flat-bottomed boat supported by two or more pontoons **

Floatplane A floatplane is a type of seaplane with one or more slender floats mounted under the fuselage to provide buoyancy. By contrast, a flying boat uses its fuselage for buoyancy. Either type of seaplane may also have landing gear suitable for land, ...

, also known as a pontoon plane **

Floating dock (jetty) A floating dock, floating pier or floating jetty is a platform or ramp supported by float (nautical), pontoons. It is usually joined to the shore with a gangway. The pier is usually held in place by vertical poles referred to as pilings, which ar ...

, a platform supported by pontoons **

Pontoon bridge A pontoon bridge (or ponton bridge), also known as a floating bridge, is a bridge that uses float (nautical), floats or shallow-draft (hull), draft boats to support a continuous deck for pedestrian and vehicle travel. The buoyancy of the support ...

, a bridge supported by shallow draft open boats or encased floats

Entertainment and media

Pontoon (card game) Pontoon, formerly called vingt-un, is a card game of the banking family for three to ten players and the "British domestic version of Twenty-One," a game first recorded in 17th-century Spain, but which spread to France, Germany and Britain in the ...

, a mainly British card game similar to blackjack (also known as vingt-et-un or 21) **

Malaysian Pontoon Malaysian Pontoon is a card game related to Pontoon (card game), Pontoon and blackjack and, like those games, a descendant of Vingt-Un or Twenty-One (card game), Twenty-One. It is played by those in Australia, Malaysia and Singapore, where it is u ...

, the variant of pontoon popular in Australian/Malaysian casinos * "Pontoon" (song), a song by Little Big Town *'' Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon'', a 2007 book by Garrison Keillor

Other uses

Ponton (automobile) Ponton or pontoon styling is an automotive design genre that spanned roughly from the 1930s-1960s, when pontoon-like bodywork enclosed the full width and uninterrupted length of a car body — eliminating previously distinct running boards ...

, or Pontoon style, the automobile fender style *

Pontoon, County Mayo Pontoon () is a lakeside village on the R310 regional road in County Mayo in Ireland, situated between Lough Conn and Lough Cullin, and near the town of Foxford Foxford () is a town 16 km south of Ballina, County Mayo, Ballina in Cou ...

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