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, an area of a racetrack where pit stops are conducted
- Pit, a part of a trading floor where open outcry takes place
- Pit cave, a natural cave containing a vertical shaft
- Open-pit mine, surface extraction of rock or minerals
- Coal mine, also known as a pit in parts of Australia
Science and technology
- Pit, an excavation on metallic surface caused by pitting corrosion
- Pit, a seed inside a fruit; for example a cherry pit
- Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon
- Powered industrial truck
- Programmable interval timer, a computing device
- Pulsed inductive thruster, a device used in spacecraft propulsion
- Pit (botany), a part of plant cell walls which allows the exchange of fluids
- Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics
- Pit, one of many indentations used to store data on a Compact Disc
- Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra
- Pit bull, a breed of dog
- WF-31, a cocaine analog sometimes abbreviated as PIT
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
- Pits (card game), a card game similar to whist and rummy
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
Sports
- Pittsburgh’s professional sports teams
- Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League
- Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball
- Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League
Places
- Pit River, a watershed in California, US
- Bolshoy Pit, a tributary of the Yenisei, Russia
- Peoples Improv Theater, a venue in New York City, US
- An abbreviation for the U.S. city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh International Airport, US, by IATA code
People
- Pit Martin (1943–2008), Canadian National Hockey League player
Law enforcement
- PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits
Other uses
- Party of Independence and Labour, a Senegalese political party