title: Passing
text: # Passing
  
  Passing may refer to:
  
  ## Social identity
  
  * Passing (sociology), presenting oneself as a member of another sociological group
     * Passing (gender), presenting oneself as being cisgender
     * Passing (racial identity), presenting oneself as a member of another race
  
  ## Literature and film
  
  * Passing (novel), a novel by Nella Larsen
     * Passing (film), directed by Rebecca Hall (2021), based on Larsen's novel
  
  ## Math and technology
  
  * Message passing, a form of communication in computer science
  * Token passing, a channel access method in telecommunications
  * Variational message passing, a mathematical technique for continuous-valued Bayesian networks
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Passing (sports), to pass a ball or puck between members of the same team
     * Passing (American football)
     * Passing (association football), or soccer
  * Passing (juggling), when two or more people share a juggling pattern
  
  ## Transportation
  
  * Passing, overtaking, the act of driving around a slower automobile
  * Passing lane, a lane on a road for use while overtaking
  * Passing loop, a section of railway where trains can pass each other
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Buck passing, or passing the buck, transferring responsibility to another
  * Passing away, euphemism for "dying"
  * A syncope is an instance of passing out, also called fainting or losing consciousness
  * Passing off, in law, presenting one product as another
  * Passing, a type of metallic thread used in embroidery
  