Pickle or pickling may be:

Food

Colloquialism

• In the US and Canada pickle usually refers to a pickled cucumber
• In the UK, pickle usually refers to a relish or sandwich pickle such as Branston Pickle

Vegetables and Fruits

• Indian pickle, a type of pickle involving strong Indian spices (can involve lime, garlic, chili pepper and mango among others).
• Beni shoga and Gari (ginger), forms of pickled ginger, common in Japanese cuisine.
• Relish, a cooked or pickled sauce, usually made with vegetables or fruits, generally used as a condiment.
• Types of pickled cucumber:
  • Dill pickle
  • Gherkin, sold mostly in British fish and chips shops
  • Polski ogorki or "polish cucumbers"

Preservation

• Pickling, food processing
• Embalming, the preservation of biological material other than as food.

Sports

• rundown, a type of play in baseball is called a pickle.
• Pickle-in-the-middle, a three-person game

Other

• Pickling (metal), surface treatment with chemical solution
• drunkenness
• Python programming language, uses a serialization library called pickle.
• Pickle (cartoonist)

See also

• pickleball