Pit or PIT may refer to:

Structure

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  • Ball pit, a recreation structure
  • Casino pit, the part of a casino which holds gaming tables
  • Trapping pit, pits used for hunting
  • Pit (motor racing), an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
  • Trading pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
  • Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
  • Mine (mining)
  • Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals
  • Coal mine or pit

Science and technology

  • Pit, an excavation on metallic surface caused by pitting corrosion
  • Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a compact disc
  • Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids
  • Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
  • Pit bull, a breed of dog
  • PIT tag, Passive Integrated Transponder for RFID system
  • Powered industrial truck, a US legal term
  • Point in time, time and date something took place
  • Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics
  • Programmable interval timer, a computing device
  • Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
  • Pyrena or pit, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches, olives and cherries
  • Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
  • Polynomial identity testing, the problem of efficiently determining whether two multivariate polynomials are identical.
  • 2-Propanoyl-3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-tropane, a cocaine analog
  • As a file extension, <code>.pit</code> stands for Partition Information Table

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

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

People

  • Pit Martin (1943–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player
  • Pit Seng Low (born 1995), Australian badminton player
  • Pit Schubert (1935–2024), German author and mountain climber
  • Pit Schlechter (born 1990), Luxembourgish cyclist
  • Pit Passarell (1968–2024), Brazilian heavy metal and rock musician
  • Alfred Lépine (1901–1955), Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • Pit Leyder (born 1997), Luxembourgish cyclist
  • Pit Kroke (1936–2016), German architect and artist
  • Pit Gilman (1864–1950), American baseball player
  • Pit Corder (1918–1990), English linguist
  • Pit Brandenburger (born 1995), Luxembourgish swimmer
  • Pit Beirer (born 1972), German motocross racer and team manager

Places

United States

  • Pit River, a watershed in California
  • Peoples Improv Theater, a venue in New York City
  • Pittsburgh (abbreviation), a city in Pennsylvania<!--fails WP:DABACRO-->
  • Pittsburgh International Airport (IATA code)

Sports

An abbreviation for Pittsburgh sports teams, such as:

  • Pittsburgh Steelers, a football team in the NFL
  • Pittsburgh Pirates, a baseball team in MLB
  • Pittsburgh Penguins, a hockey team in the NHL
  • Pittsburgh Condors, a former basketball team in the NBA

Transport

  • Palitana railway station, Gujarat, India, Indian Railways station code PIT

Other uses

  • Party of Independence and Labour (), a Senegalese political party
  • Ivorian Workers' Party (), an Ivorian political party
  • PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits
  • Bie (surname), Chinese surname also romanized as Pit
  • Pit organ, an organ present in snakes used to sense infrared light

See also

  • The Pit (disambiguation)
  • Pitt (disambiguation)
  • Pitts (disambiguation)
  • PITS (disambiguation)
  • Bolshoy Pit, a tributary of the Yenisei, Russia
  • Pituitary-specific positive transcription factor 1 (PIT-1), a gene
  • Bottomless pit (disambiguation)
  • Cockpit
  • Hole (disambiguation)
  • Fossa (disambiguation), (Latin for pit)