Pit

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 England

Science and technology

• Armpit, a body part
• 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
• 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

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 in which musicians perform

Places

• Pit River, a watershed in California, US
• The People's Improv Theater, a venue in New York City, US
• Pittsburgh, US, by abbreviation
• Pittsburgh International Airport, US, by IATA code

People

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

Other uses

• PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits
• 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)
• All pages beginning with "Pit"
• All pages with titles containing Pit