A pothole is a surface disruption in a roadway, caused by fatigue and erosion.
Pothole may also refer to:
- A small deep hole dug to look for buried public utilities, see vacuum excavation
- Pothole (geology), a phenomenon encountered in the platinum mining industry in South Africa
- Pothole (landform), evorsion, swirlhole, or giant's kettle, a smooth, bowl-shaped or cylindrical hollow created by water erosion of bedrock
- Pothole, or panhole, a shallow solution basin, or closed depression, found on flat or gently sloping rock
- Pothole, a shallow depression, often containing an intermittent pond or marsh and serving as a nesting place for waterfowl in the Prairie Pothole Region of North America
- Pothole, or pit cave, a predominantly vertical cave system
- The Pothole (Seinfeld)