Pass

Pass, PASS, The Pass or Passed may refer to:

Permissions

• Ticket (admission)
• Pass (military), permission for military personnel to be away from their unit
• Backstage pass, allows admission to backstage areas of a performance venue
• Hall pass, a token allowing a pupil to leave the classroom during school
• Press pass, grants special privilege or access to journalists
• Season ticket, or season pass
• Transit pass, permitting travel, including:
  • Boarding pass, allows a passenger to board an aircraft
  • Continent pass, a pass allowing air travel within a continent

Arts and entertainment

• Pass, in a game, to decline a turn at play
  • In contract bridge, to make no bid when it is one's turn to bid
• "The Pass" (song), a song by the band Rush
• Passed (band), a Hungarian band formed in the summer of 2014
• Pro-Am Sports System, or PASS Sports, a former Detroit-area cable television channel

Sports

• Passing (association football)
• Pass (ice hockey), the movement of the puck from one player to another
• Basketball pass
• Forward pass, in American and Canadian football
• Lateral pass or onside pass, in American and Canadian football respectively
• Rugby passes (disambiguation)
• Pro All Stars Series, a super late model racing series
• "The Pass", nickname for the 1996 CART Monterey Grand Prix

Geography

• Pass, Poland, a village in Poland
• Pass, County Meath, a townland in Ireland
• Mountain pass, a lower place in a mountain range allowing easier passage
• Ocean passes, straits named with the synonym "pass" or "passage":
  • In Caribbean:
    • Anegada Passage
    • Caicos Passage, part of the geography of the Turks and Caicos Islands
    • (La) Désirade Passage, Guadeloupe
    • Dominica Passage, between Dominica and Guadeloupe
    • Guadeloupe Passage, off Guadeloupe
    • Marie-Galante Passage, off Guadeloupe
    • Martinique Passage, between Dominica and Martinique
    • Mona Passage, between Hispaniola and Puerto Rico
    • Saint Vincent Passage, between Saint Vincent and Saint Lucia
    • (Les) Saintes Passage, Guadeloupe
    • Windward Passage, between Cuba and Hispaniola
  • Within, or terminating in, Puget Sound, state of Washington, USA:
    • Agate Pass
    • Colvos Passage
    • Dalco Passage
    • Deception Pass
    • Pickering Passage
    • Rich Passage
  • In other areas:
    • Amchitka Pass, Alaska
    • Boundary Pass, western North America
    • Drake Passage, between South America and Antarctica
    • Pass Christian, Passe aux Christian, and Passe de Huile, near city of Pass Christian, Mississippi, USA
    • Sibutu Passage, between Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago
    • Tongass Passage, between Alaska and British Columbia

Science and technology

• Pass (spaceflight), the period in which a satellite or other spacecraft is visible above the local horizon
• PASS Sample Size Software, a computer program for estimating sample size
• PASS device, a personal safety device used by firefighters entering a hazardous environment
• Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive Theory, a learning and intelligence model
• Plasma Acoustic Shield System, a disorientating weapon based on plasma explosions
• Platform as a service, usually spelled PaaS, a category of cloud computing services

People

• A Pass (born 1989), Ugandan musician
• Frank Alexander de Pass, English soldier, first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War I
• Joe Pass (1929–1994), jazz musician
• John Pass (born 1947), British-born Canadian poet
• Nelson Pass (born 1951), designer of audio amplifiers
• Patrick Pass (born 1977), American football player

Other uses

• Pass (legislature), the action of approving a proposed law
• Pass (sleight of hand), a sleight of hand move
• The Pass (psychoanalysis)
• Pass Labs, an audio company based in Foresthill, California, USA
• Pass laws, apartheid laws in South Africa which limited the movement of some people
• Pass Plus, a UK scheme to improve driving skills among young drivers
• Peer-Assisted Study Sessions, an academic support program often used in higher education
• Performer Availability Screening Services, a U.S. STI screening database
• Professional Association for SQL Server, a global Microsoft SQL Server community group
• Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, an AFL–CIO affiliated union
• Proof of Age Standards Scheme, an age identification program in the U.K.

See also

• All pages with titles containing Pass
• Passer (disambiguation)
• Passing (disambiguation)
• Passage (disambiguation)
• Bypass (disambiguation)