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Pole may refer to:

• A solid cylindrical object with length greater than its diameter e.g:
  • Barber's pole, advertising a barber shop;
  • Danish pole, a circus prop;
  • Firemen's pole, a wooden pole or a metal tube or pipe installed between floors in fire stations
  • Flag pole, a metal pole from which a flag is hung
  • Lamppost, a raised source of light on the edge of a road
  • Totem pole, monumental sculptures carved from great trees
  • Utility pole, also called a telephone pole, telegraph pole or power pole, a pole that carries utility wires
  • Poles used in sporting and other activities:
    • Dance pole, a pole used for pole dancing
    • Maypole, a tall wooden pole with ornaments, like ribbons, that is danced around
    • Pole bending, a rodeo event that involves riding a horse around six poles arranged in a line
    • Pole vaulting pole, a pole used for pole vaulting
    • Pole-sitting pole, a pole used for pole sitting, which is the practice of sitting on a pole for extended lengths of time
    • Ski pole, a pole used by skiers to improve balance, speed and acceleration
    • Spinnaker pole, a spar used in sailboats to help support and control a variety of headsails, particularly the spinnaker
    • Trekking pole, also called hiking sticks or hiking poles, a pole used for hiking
  • Pole position, in motorsport, the position at the front of the grid
  • The contacts in a switch
  • Pole (Venezuela) (Polo), a political party in Venezuela
  • Rod (unit), a unit of length equal to 11 cubits, 5.0292 meters or 16.5 feet
  • Festivus pole, a pole used in the celebration of Festivus that is traditionally made of aluminum

• Geographical pole, either of two fixed points on the surface of a spinning body or planet, at 90 degrees from the equator, based on the axis around which a body spins
  • North Pole, the northernmost point on the surface of the Earth, where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface
  • Polar circle, a circle of latitude where the sun is above and below the horizon for 24 continuous hours at least once per year
  • Polar climate, the climate of the polar regions, characterized by a lack of warm summers
  • Polar region, the region within the polar circles, referred to as the Arctic and Antarctic
  • South Pole, the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth, where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface
• Magnetic pole
  • Magnetic North Pole, the shifting point on the Earth to which the "north" end of a dipole magnet points
  • Magnetic South Pole, the shifting point on the Earth to which the "south" end of a dipole magnet points
• For concepts analogous to the Earth's geographic and magnetic poles on other planets and Solar System bodies, see Poles of astronomical bodies
• Mount Everest, the third "top" of the Earth
• Orbital pole, on the celestial sphere
• Pole of inaccessibility, a location that is the most challenging to reach owing to its remoteness from geographical features which could provide access
• Pole star, a visible star that is approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation

• One "half" of a dipole
• Pole, a term used in electrical circuits referring to switches.
• Pole (complex analysis), a certain type of mathematical singularity
• surface vertices of the eye's lens
• Fetal pole, a thickening on the margin of the yolk sac of a fetus during pregnancy
• Landau pole, the energy scale where a coupling constant of a quantum field theory becomes infinite
• Monopole
  • Magnetic monopole, a hypothetical particle that may be loosely described as a magnet with only one pole
  • Monopole (mathematics), a connection over a principal bundle G with a section (the Higgs field) of the associated adjoint bundle
  • Monopole (wine), an appellation controlled by a single winery
  • Monopole antenna, a radio antenna that replaces half of a dipole antenna with a ground plane at right-angles to the remaining half

• Poles, people originating from or inhabiting the country of Poland
• Pole (musician), an electronic music artist named Stefan Betke

• Charles Morice Pole, 1st Baronet (1757–1830), English naval officer and colonial governor
• Dick Pole (born 1950), former Major League Baseball player and current coach
• Edward Tudor-Pole (born 1955), a British singer and actor
• Edmund de la Pole, 3rd Duke of Suffolk, 6th Earl of Suffolk (1471/1472 - 1513)
• George Pole, Conservative Party (UK) member and activist, Chairman of the Conservative Monday Club 1970-2
• Jill Pole, a fictional character from C. S. Lewis' Chronicles of Narnia series
• John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (1462/4-1487), eldest son of John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk and Elizabeth of York
• John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk (1442-1491/2), known as the Trimming Duke, son of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk
• Margaret Pole (1473–1541), Countess of Salisbury, daughter of George Plantagenet (brother of Edward IV and Richard III of England)
• Michael de la Pole, 1st Earl of Suffolk (1330–1389)
• Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1367–1415)
• Michael de la Pole, 3rd Earl of Suffolk (1394–1415)
• Reginald Cardinal Pole (1500–1558), Archbishop of Canterbury
• Richard de la Pole (died 1525 in Milan) was a pretender to the English crown
• Wellesley Tudor Pole (1884-1964), English author
• William Pole (1814-1900), English engineer
• William de la Pole (1396-1450), English soldier and commander in the Hundred Years' War, later Lord Chamberlain of England
• William Wellesley-Pole, 3rd Earl of Mornington GCH PC (1763–1845), British politician and elder brother of the Duke of Wellington

• Axle
• Club (weapon)
• Poland
• Quarterstaff
• Rod (disambiguation)
• Shaft

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