The most common skeleton patterns in the literature are probably farm, pipe, and map.

Skeleton set is the list of supported skeleton patterns.

IF represents conditional branching, where the execution choice between two skeleton patterns is decided by a condition.

Several pictograms of living beings feature skeleton pattern, showing the internal organs.

This section describes some well-known Algorithmic Skeleton patterns.

Skeleton nesting is the capability of hierarchical composition of skeleton patterns.

A pipe can have a variable number of stages, each stage of a pipe may be a nested skeleton pattern.

As recently as last month for Madrid Fashion Week, the spring 2013 designs of Maya Hansen featured corseted dresses, flowers and skeleton patterns.

A Skeleton Description Language (SDL) is used to describe the skeleton pattern by specifying the topology with respect to a virtual processor grid.

The most outstanding feature of algorithmic skeletons, which differentiates them from other high-level parallel programming models, is that orchestration and synchronization of the parallel activities is implicitly defined by the skeleton patterns.