The term hot seat or hotseat can refer to:
- 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-orientated 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 (Philippine TV series), an interactive talk-show on GMA Pinoy TV
- "Being on 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
- Hotseat (web application), a social Web application created by Purdue University that helps to create a more collaborative classroom
