Pyramid (disambiguation)

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
 * 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 PyraMMMid, 2011 crime film
 * 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
 * Pyramid Films, now Pyramid Media, an educational film distributor

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 (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, 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 (Lee Konitz album)
 * 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

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
 * Pyramids (Bathgate), a land sculpture in West Lothian, Scotland
 * 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
 * Great Pyramid of Cholula, Mexico

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
 * Ecological pyramid

Other uses

 * A type of organizational structure
 * Hierarchy