PK
Arts and entertainment
Gaming
- Probability of kill (Pk), in computer games, simulations, models, and operations research
- Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows, a 2002 video game
- Player killing, player versus player conflict in MMORPGs and MUDs
Organisations
- Pakistan International Airlines (IATA airline code)
- Polyteknikkojen Kuoro, a Finnish academic male choir
- Promise Keepers, a Christian men's organization
- Swedish Publicists' Association (Swedish: Publicistklubben), Swedish journalist organization
People
- P. K. van der Byl (1923–1999), Rhodesian politician
- P. K. Subban (born 1989), hockey player
- Paul Kalkbrenner (born 1977), electronic musician
- Phil Katz (1962–2000), creator of the PKZIP file compression software
- Philip K. Wrigley (1894–1977), American chewing gum manufacturer
- Paul Kagame (born 1957), President of Rwanda
Places
- PK, or Busan–Gyeongnam Area, a metropolitan area in South Korea
- Pakistan (ISO country code)
- Possum Kingdom Lake, Texas, US
- Pickering, Ontario, Canada
Science and technology
Chemistry and pharmacology
- pK, negative logarithm of the dissociation constant K (-logK)
- Pharmacokinetics, a branch of pharmacology dedicated to determining the fate of substances administered to a living organism
Computing
- PK, a magic number commonly used in the Zip file format
- .pk, the country code top level domain (ccTLD) for Pakistan
- Port knocking, a method of externally opening ports on a firewall
- Public-key cryptography
Other uses in science and technology
- P.K, an Iranian automobile
- PK machine gun, a Soviet weapon, abbreviated from Pulemyot Kalashnikova (Kalashnikov machine gun)
- Horsepower (Dutch abbreviation paardenkracht)
- Pentax K-mount, a camera lens mount
- Catalogue of galactic planetary nebulae (Perek-Kohoutek), in astronomy
Sports
- Parkour, the activity or sport of moving rapidly through an area, typically urban, negotiating obstacles by running, jumping, and climbing
- Penalty kick (association football)
- Penalty kill, in ice hockey
- Placekicker, in American football
Other uses
- Point kilométrique (English: Kilometric point), a measurement of distance travelled
- Preacher's kid, a child of a pastor
- SAS President Kruger (F150), a former ship of the South African Navy
- Psychokinesis, an alleged psychic ability allowing a person to influence objects without physical interaction
- Pre-kindergarten
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