Pick

Pick may refer to:

Places

• Pick City, North Dakota, a town in the United States
• Pick Lake (Cochrane District, Ontario), a lake in Canada
• Pick Lake (Thunder Bay District), a lake in Canada
• Pick Mere, a lake in Pickmere, England

People with the name

• Pick (surname), a list of people with this name
• nickname of Percy Charles Pickard (1915–1944), British Royal Air Force pilot
• Pick Temple (1911–1991), American folk singer and children's television star
• Pick Withers (born 1948), drummer for the English rock band Dire Straits

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Plectrum or pick, a device for strumming a stringed instrument

• Guitar pick, specific to guitars and similar instruments

• The Picks, a vocal quartet which backed Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957
• Pick (TV channel), a British television channel
• "The Pick", an episode of the television show Seinfeld
• Odds and evens or pick, a hand game
• Pick (film), short drama film, directed by Alicia K. Harris

Science, mathematics and technology

• Pick operating system, a computer operating system
• Pick's disease, a neurodegenerative disease
• Pick's theorem in geometry
• Sertoli cell nodule, also known as Pick's adenoma, a medical disorder

Sports

• Pick, slang term for an interception
  • Pick-six, a gridiron football term for turning an interception into a touchdown
• Draft (sports) pick, the right to choose a player, or the player chosen
• Screen (sports), also called a pick, a blocking move used against a defender

Tools and weapons

• Afro pick, a type of comb for kinky, coiled hair
• Hook and pick, a hand tool for removing seals, especially gaskets. Typically awl shaped and bent at the tip for more leverage.
• Horseman's pick, a weapon used by medieval cavalry units in Europe
• Ice pick
• Lockpick (disambiguation), a tool used for lock picking
• Pickaxe, a hand tool
• Toothpick

Other uses

• Pick (hieroglyph), an ancient Egyptian symbol representing the tool
• Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya (or PICK), a political party in Kenya
• Pick stitch, in sewing
• Pick Szeged, a Hungarian meat company

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Pick
• All pages with titles containing Pick
• All pages with titles containing Picks
• Pix (disambiguation)
• Pique (disambiguation)
• Pic (disambiguation)