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, a seed inside a fruit; for example a cherry pit Pit (nuclear weapon), the core of an implosion weapon Powered industrial truck, a US legal term 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 Pyrena, the hard seed-bearing kernel inside drupe fruits such as peaches and olives Probability integral transform, a theorem in probability and statistics Boolean prime ideal theorem, which guarantees the existence of certain types of subsets in a given abstract algebra Pit bull, a breed of dog 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 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 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) PIT Solutions, an Indian IT company Sports An abbreviation for Pittsburgh sports teams, such as: Pittsburgh Steelers, a football team in the NFL Pittsburgh Pirates, a baseball team in the MLB Pittsburgh Penguins, a hockey team in the NHL Pittsburgh Condors, a former basketball team in the NBA Other uses Party of Independence and Labour, a Senegalese political party PIT maneuver, a ramming tactic used by law enforcement in vehicle pursuits Pit Martin