The term hot seat or hotseat can refer to:
- "Being in the hot seat", an expression for a high-pressure situation in which a great deal of attention and scrutiny is focused on a person or organization
- Hot seat, a slang term for the electric chair
- Hotseat (multiplayer mode), a multiplayer mode in computer games, where players take consecutive turns in a single "seat"
- Hot Seat (talk show), a former syndicated politically oriented talk show in the United States
- Hot Seat (game show), a former ABC game show in the United States
- Hot seat, the term used for the contestant's chair on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Millionaire Hot Seat, the 2009 relaunch of the Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
- Hot Seat (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
Famous quotes containing the words hot and/or seat:
“Sir Toby Belch. Dost thou think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?
Feste. Yes, by Saint Anne, and ginger shall be hot i’the mouth, too.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them—their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)