Pass

Last updated October 22, 2025

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

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Pass (military), permission for military personnel to be away from their unit
Backstage pass, allows admission to backstage areas of a performance venue
Press pass, grants special privilege or access to journalists
Season ticket, or season pass
Ticket (admission), also called a 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

A Pass (born 1987), Ugandan musician
Frank Alexander de Pass, English soldier, first Jewish recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War I
Joe Pass (1929–1994), American jazz musician
John Pass (engraver) (c.1783–1832), English engraver
John Pass (poet) (born 1947), British-born Canadian poet
Nelson Pass (born 1951), American designer of audio amplifiers
Patrick Pass (born 1977), American football player

Battle pass, a type of monetization and reward system in video games
Pass (cards), to make no bid when it is one's turn to do so
A type of card manipulation in close-up magic
Passed (band), a Hungarian band formed in the summer of 2014
The Pass, a 1906 novel by Stewart Edward White
"The Pass" (song), a song by the band Rush, from their 1989 album Presto
The Pass (1988 film), a Soviet animated short film
The Pass (2016 film), a film by Ben A. Williams based on the play by John Donnelly about football and homosexuality
Pro-Am Sports System, or PASS Sports, a former Detroit-area cable television channel

Pass, a term used in grading to indicate a student has successfully completed academic requirements
Peer-Assisted Study Sessions, an academic support program often used in higher education

Pass (legislature), the action of approving a proposed law
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
Palmetto Assessment of State Standards (PASS), a standardized test taken in South Carolina, USA
Proof of Age Standards Scheme (PASS), an age identification program in the UK

Pass (software), a command line based password manager for Unix systems
PASS Sample Size Software, a computer program for estimating sample size
Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, and Successive Theory, a learning and intelligence model
Platform as a service, usually spelled PaaS, a category of cloud computing services
pass, Python keyword for no-op
pass, some sorts of transformation in compiler; see multi-pass compiler

Pass (spaceflight), the period in which a satellite or other spacecraft is visible above the local horizon
PASS device, a personal safety device used by firefighters entering a hazardous environment
Plasma Acoustic Shield System, a disorientating weapon based on plasma explosions
The Pass (psychoanalysis), a procedure