More specifically, in biology, pooling refers to the collection of multiple samples to represent one sample of weighted value.

Pooling in statistics, the aggregation of measured values into classes for the construction of frequency scales, to avoid zeros and excessive random fluctuation.

Another term for pond, a body of water smaller than a lake

Swimming Pool, a pool of water used for recreation and sports.

'Pool, nickname of football (soccer) club Liverpool F.C.

Pool betting (see also next entry), an obsolete term for parimutuel betting, in which all bets of the same type are placed together, fees taken, and odds are calculated by sharing the pool among all placed bets; the origin of the term for pocket billiards (above)

Football pools ("the pools"), football (soccer) betting-pool gambling, especially the UK

Poul (disambiguation page)

Pool checkers, a variant of checkers (draughts)

Another term for puddle, a very small body of water

Press pool^[clarify]

A colloquial term for pocket billiards, a family of cue sports including eight-ball, nine-ball, straight pool and one-pocket among others.

Pool-type reactor, a kind of nuclear reactor

Object pool^[clarify]

Poel (disambiguation page)

Footy pool, Australian-rules football gambling, more commonly called footy tipping

Connection pool^[clarify]

Memory pool^[clarify]

Thread pool pattern^[clarify]

Albert-Jan Pool^[clarify]

Pooling (resource management), the grouping together of resources or effort, in any of a wide range of disciplines, but most especially finance (see this article for a number of specific variants).

Pool-in-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire

Singapore Pools, Singapore's sole legal lottery

Reflecting pool, a shallow pool of water designed to reflect a structure

Betting pool (sports lotto, office pool); modern parimutuel-like betting but with a lottery-influenced fixed wager (often a literal ticket price), and no odds calculation

River Pool^[clarify]

Pool Region, in the Republic of the Congo

Another term for pot (poker), the money wagered during a single hand or game

Pool play, another name for the group stage of a sports tournament such as a World Cup

Stream pool, a quiet slow moving portion of a stream

Pool, Cornwall

Secretarial pool^[clarify]

Poole (disambiguation)

Hockey pool, a simplified version of fantasy hockey

Death pool, a game of prediction which involves guessing when someone will die (see also assassination politics)

See also fantasy football (American), fantasy baseball, fantasy basketball, etc.

"Pooling", an informal jargon term for the temporary darkening of a spot on an LCD/TFT flat-panel display when pushed on with a finger or other object