A competition in which people try to predict the results of football matches and win money

(computing) A pool of threads of execution created to perform a number of tasks.

A pool that is small in diameter, but deep, usually resulting from erosion by a natural force such as a waterfall or rapids.

An area that is inundated during periods of flooding to prevent inundation elsewhere. / A swimming pool that is filled by water at high tide and remains filled at low tide.

A variety of the game of billiards in which small wooden pins are set up to be knocked down by the balls.

A bird, the European redshank.

A swimming pool in which there are artificially generated, reasonably large waves, similar to the ocean's.

(US, politics, journalism) An event in which photographers and other members of the news media are allowed to visit briefly with the US President or other top US government officials, especially on the occasion of a meeting with leaders or high-level officials from other countries.

A pocket billiards game using numbered markers, called peas or pills, and a standard set of sixteen pool balls. Players draw peas at random from a shake bottle, which assigns to them the correspondingly numbered pool ball, kept secret from their opponents, but which they must pocket in order to win the game.

Synonym of dead pool