Pit

A pit has several definitions:

• any high walled depression in the ground. Examples include a quarry or (in Britain) a coal mine.
• The 'bottomless pit is hell.
• There is a card game called pit.
• In a marching band, the section which does not march, usually consisting of xylophone, other mallet instruments, and/or timpani and suspended cymbal, is called the percussion pit (pit for short).
• The seed in the center of a certain fruits is called a pit. Fruits containing pits include the cherry, peach, prune, olive, avocado, and others.
• Pit is a fictitious character who stars in the video game franchise Kid Icarus.

See also Mosh pit.