Pyro Explained

Pyro comes from the Greek word πῦρ (pyr), meaning fire. It may refer to:

Businesses

• Pyro Plastics Corporation, a plastic model kit maker 1940s through the 1970s
• Pyro Studios, a computer game developer based in Madrid
• NRK P3 Pyro, a Norwegian Internet-based music radio station

Entertainment

• "Pyro" (song), by Kings of Leon, 2010
• "Pyro", a song by T.S.O.L. from their 2001 album Disappear
• "Pyro", a song by Hail the Villain from their 2010 album
• "Pyro", a song by the Standstills from their 2012 album Pushing Electric
• "Pyro", a song by 2:54 from their 2014 album The Other I
• "Pyro", a song by Shinedown from their 2018 album Attention Attention
• "Pyro", a song by Budjerah from his 2021 self-titled EP
• "Pyro (leak 2019)", a song by Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats from their 2020 EP Unlocked
• Pyro (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Pyro (Team Fortress 2), one of the playable classes in the video game
• Pyro... The Thing Without a Face, a 1964 film starring Barry Sullivan and Martha Hyer
• A god in the video game Sacrifice
• One of the seven elements in the video game Genshin Impact

Other uses

• Pyro (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse
• Pyro, Ohio, United States
• , two U.S. Navy ammunition ships
• Short for pyrotechnics
• Slang for a person afflicted with pyromania, the inability to resist the impulse to deliberately start fires
• Pyro cable, mineral-insulated copper-clad cable (MICC), a fire-resistant electrical cable
• Probabilistic programming language Pyro, extending from PyTorch

See also

• Pyrrho of Elis (360–270 BC), Greek philosopher, founder of Pyrrhonism
• Pyros (disambiguation)