Pyramid (disambiguation)

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A pyramid is a structure with triangular lateral surfaces converging to an apex.

Pyramid may also refer to:

Anatomy and medicine

• Petrous part of the temporal bone, the pyramid
• Pyramid (brainstem), the anterior part of medulla oblongata

Games and sport

• Pyramid (solitaire), a card game played by one person
• Pyramid (drinking game), a card game that is most commonly used as a drinking game
• Pyramid (video game), a 1990s Nintendo game by American Video Entertainment
• Pyramid 2000, a 1980s TRS-80 Color Computer interactive fiction text game based on the Colossal Cave Adventure
• Human pyramid, a vertically oriented, triangular or pyramid-shaped formation of people
• Russian pyramid, known as "pyramid", a pool/snooker type game
• League system, a hierarchy of leagues in a given sport
• Pyramid, a three-dimensional chess variant
• Pyramid, a fictional sport in the science-fiction TV show Battlestar Galactica

Television and film

• Several television game shows with the same format, created by Bob Stewart and now controlled by Sony Pictures Television:
  • Pyramid (game show), the United States versions since 1973, including The $25,000 Pyramid and Junior Pyramid
  • Pyramid (Australian game show), a children's quiz show in Australia since 2009, based on the U.S. Junior Partner Pyramid
• The Pyramid (film), 2014 horror film
• The Pyramid (Croatian TV series), a weekly talk and debate competition television show begun in 2004
• "The Pyramid", a 1978 episode of The Bionic Woman

Publications and publishing

• Pyramid (magazine), a gaming magazine
• Pyramids (novel), a 1989 Terry Pratchett book of the Discworld series
• The Pyramid (Golding), a 1967 novel about growing up in the 1920s in England
• The Pyramid (Kadare), a 1995 novel in Albanian
• The Pyramid, a newspaper in Mount Pleasant, Utah
• The Pyramid (short stories), by Henning Mankell, published first as Pyramiden in Swedish in 1999 and afterwards in English in 2008
• Pyramid Books, a publishing company

Music

• Pyramid (band), an American experimental, indie-rock band from North Carolina and active since the early 2000s
• Pyramids (band), an American experimental group on Hydra Head Records in the 2000s, from Texas
  • Pyramids (album), their 2008 debut studio album
• The Pyramids (band), an American surf rock group in the 1960s, from California
• The Pyramids, a jazz and world music group formed in the 1970s and led by Idris Ackamoor
• Symarip, a British reggae group also known as The Pyramids, active from the 1960s to the 1970s
• Starfucker, an indie-electronica band from Oregon, started in 2007 as Pyramid or Pyramiddd
• Pyramid (The Alan Parsons Project album), 1978
• Pyramid (Modern Jazz Quartet album), 1960
• Pyramid (Cannonball Adderley album), 1974
• Pyramid Rock Festival, in Victoria, Australia

Songs

• "Pyramid" (song), by Charice
• "Pyramids" (song), by Frank Ocean
• "Pyramid", a song by Wolfmother on the album Wolfmother
• "Pyramid", a song by Two Door Cinema Club

Places

Canada

• The Pyramid (volcano), a lava dome in British Columbia
• Pyramid Mountain (volcano), a subglacial mound in British Columbia
• Pyramid Lake (Alberta)

United States

• Pyramid, Illinois, an unincorporated community
• Pyramid, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Pyramid, Nevada, an unincorporated community
• Pyramid Lake (El Dorado County, California)
• Pyramid Lake (Los Angeles County, California)
• Pyramid Lake (Nevada)
• Pyramid Peak (disambiguation)

Elsewhere

• The Egyptian Pyramids, especially the Pyramids at Giza
• The Pyramids, a rock formation at Victory Beach, New Zealand
• The Pyramid, a small island in the Chatham Islands, New Zealand
• The Pyramid (Antarctica), a distinctive peak in Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Pyramid, Maribor, a low hill in the city of Maribor, Slovenia

Buildings

• Louvre Pyramid (Pyramide du Louvre), one large and three smaller glass and metal pyramids in the main courtyard of the Louvre Palace in Paris, France
• Portsmouth Pyramids Centre, a leisure complex in the UK
• Memphis Pyramid, in Memphis, Tennessee
• The Pyramids (Indianapolis), an office development in Indiana
• Walter Pyramid (formerly Long Beach Pyramid), a stadium in California

In business

• Pyramid scheme, a non-sustainable business model
• Pyramid Breweries, a brewing company headquartered in Seattle, Washington
• Pyramid Building Society, an Australian company which collapsed in 1990
• Pyramid Technology, a defunct computer company based in California from 1981 to 1995
• The Pyramid Companies, an American shopping mall developer founded in 1970
• Pyramid (cigarette), a cigarette brand manufactured by Liggett Group, Inc.

Science and technology

• Pyramid (geometry), a polyhedron formed by connecting a polygonal base and a point, called the apex
• Pyramid (image processing), a type of multi-scale signal representation
• Pyramid (web framework), an open source web application framework written in Python
• The codename of a project aiming to rewrite Microsoft Word from scratch

Other uses

• A type of organizational structure

See also

• Piramida (disambiguation)
• Die Pyramide, a high-rise building in Berlin
• La Pyramide a restaurant in Vienne, Isère, France
• Pyramiden, a mining settlement in Svalbard, Norway