Pit

Pit may refer to:

• Any high walled depression in the ground, such as a quarry or (in Britain) a coal mine.
• Burial alive as a fictional method of execution based on The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe
• The single seed in the center of a cherry, peach, plum, olive, avocado or other fruit
• The nanometer-scale depressions holding the data in a compact disc
• The part of a race track where pit stops are conducted.

As a proper noun, Pit can refer to:

• Hell, the "Bottomless Pit".
• Pit (game), a Parker Brothers card game based on commodities exchanges.
• Pits (game), a cross between whist and rummy.
• Pit (Nintendo character), star of the Nintendo Entertainment System video game Kid Icarus.
• University Arena, a basketball venue on the campus of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

Pit can be short for:

• Armpit, a part of the body.
• Ball pit, a play structure.
• Mosh pit, a type of dancing.
• Pit bull, a type of dog.
• Front ensemble, the stationary percussion section in a marching band or drum corps
• Orchestra pit

As an abbreviation, PIT can refer to:

• PIT, Pittsburgh International Airport
• PIT maneuver, short for Pursuit Intervention Technique, used during high-speed pursuits
• Programmable Interval Timer, a timer available in the entire PC architecture.