1. Structure

2. Science and technology

3. Arts and entertainment
    Games  Music 

4. Places

5. People

6. Law enforcement

7. Other uses

8. See also

Pit or PIT may refer to:

Structure

• Ball pit, a recreation structure
• Casino pit, the part of a casino which holds gaming tables
• Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
• Pit, an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
• Pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
• Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
• Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals
• Coal mine, also known as a pit in parts of Australia

Science and technology

• Pit, an excavation in metal caused by pitting corrosion
• Pit, a seed inside a fruit; for example a cherry pit
• Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
• Powered industrial truck
• Programmable interval timer, a computing device
• Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
• Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids
• Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics
• Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a Compact Disc
• Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
• Pit bull, a breed of dog
• WF-31, a cocaine analogue sometimes abbreviated as PIT

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, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
• Mosh pit, an area for dancing at a concert
• Orchestra pit, the area in a theater, between the stage and audience, in which musicians perform

Places

• Pit River, a watershed in California, US
• Peoples Improv Theater, a venue in New York City, US
• An abbreviation for the U.S. city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh International Airport, US, by IATA code

People

• Pit Martin (1943–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player

Law enforcement

• PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits

Other uses

• Party of Independence and Labour, a Senegalese political party

See also

• PIT-1, a gene
• The Pit (disambiguation)
• Pitt (disambiguation)
• Pitts (disambiguation)
• Bottomless pit (disambiguation)
• Cockpit
• Hole (disambiguation)
• Fossa (disambiguation), (Latin for pit)
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