# Pick

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**Pick** may refer to:

## Places

- [Pick City, North Dakota](/source/Pick_City,_North_Dakota), a town in the United States
- [Pick Lake (Cochrane District, Ontario)](/source/Pick_Lake_(Cochrane_District,_Ontario)), a lake in Canada
- [Pick Lake (Thunder Bay District)](/source/Pick_Lake_(Thunder_Bay_District)), a lake in Canada
- Pick Mere, a lake in [Pickmere](/source/Pickmere), England

## People with the name

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

## Arts, entertainment, and media

- [Plectrum](/source/Plectrum) or pick, a device for strumming a stringed instrument

- - [Guitar pick](/source/Guitar_pick), specific to guitars and similar instruments

- [The Picks](/source/The_Picks), a vocal quartet which backed Buddy Holly and the Crickets in 1957
- [Pick (TV channel)](/source/Pick_(TV_channel)), a British television channel
- "[The Pick](/source/The_Pick)", an episode of the television show *Seinfeld*
- [Odds and evens](/source/Odds_and_evens_(hand_game)) or pick, a hand game
- [Pick (film)](/source/Pick_(film)), short drama film, directed by Alicia K. Harris

## Science, mathematics and technology

- [Pick operating system](/source/Pick_operating_system), a computer operating system
- [Pick's disease](/source/Pick's_disease), a neurodegenerative disease
- [Pick's theorem](/source/Pick's_theorem) in geometry
- [Sertoli cell nodule](/source/Sertoli_cell_nodule), also known as Pick's adenoma, a medical disorder

## Sports

- Pick, slang term for an [interception](/source/Interception) - [Pick-six](/source/Interception#Gridiron_football), a [gridiron football](/source/Gridiron_football) term for turning an [interception](/source/Interception) into a [touchdown](/source/Touchdown)
- [Draft (sports)](/source/Draft_(sports)) pick, the right to choose a player, or the player chosen
- [Screen (sports)](/source/Screen_(sports)), also called a pick, a blocking move used against a defender

## Tools and weapons

- [Afro pick](/source/Comb#Afro_pick), a type of comb for kinky, coiled hair
- Hook and pick, a hand tool for removing seals, especially [gaskets](/source/Gasket). Typically [awl](/source/Scratch_awl) shaped and bent at the tip for more leverage.
- [Horseman's pick](/source/Horseman's_pick), a weapon used by medieval cavalry units in Europe
- [Ice pick](/source/Ice_pick)
- [Lockpick (disambiguation)](/source/Lockpick_(disambiguation)), a tool used for lock picking
- [Pickaxe](/source/Pickaxe), a hand tool
- [Toothpick](/source/Toothpick)

## Other uses

- [Pick (hieroglyph)](/source/Pick_(hieroglyph)), an ancient Egyptian symbol representing the tool
- [Party of Independent Candidates of Kenya](/source/Party_of_Independent_Candidates_of_Kenya) (or PICK), a political party in Kenya
- [Pick stitch](/source/Pick_stitch), in sewing
- [Pick Szeged](/source/Pick_Szeged), a Hungarian meat company

## See also

- [Pix (disambiguation)](/source/Pix_(disambiguation))
- [Pique (disambiguation)](/source/Pique_(disambiguation))
- [Pic (disambiguation)](/source/Pic_(disambiguation))

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