# 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 (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, .pit 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
* 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 (French: Parti de l'Indépendance et du Travail), a Senegalese political party
* Ivorian Workers' Party (French: Parti ivoirien des travailleurs), an Ivorian political party
* PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits
* Bie (surname), Chinese surname also romanized as Pit