Ping may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

* Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book '' The Story about Ping'', first published in 1933 * Ping, a minor character in ''Seinfeld'', an NBC sitcom * Ping, a character in the webcomic ''Megatokyo'' * Ping, the disguised identity of Hua Mulan in the animated film ''

Mulan Hua Mulan () is a legendary folk heroine from the Northern and Southern dynasties era (4th to 6th century CE) of Chinese history. According to legend, Mulan took her aged father's place in the conscription for the army by disguising herself as ...

'' * '' Ping the Elastic Man'', a comic strip character introduced in ''The Beano'' in 1938 * "The machine that goes ''Ping!''", a fictitious obstetric medical device featured in the film '' Monty Python's The Meaning of Life'' * Mr. Ping, a character in the ''Kung Fu Panda'' franchise * Professor Ping, a character in the film '' Barbarella'' * Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novel ''

Dragonkeeper ''Dragonkeeper'' is a fantasy novel written by Australian author Carole Wilkinson. It is one of the first books from the Dragonkeeper series, which consists of six books (two trilogies) and a prequel. The second book is called Garden of the Purpl ...

Other uses in arts and entertainment

* "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett * ''Ping!'', a 2000 film featuring Shirley Jones *

Ping.fm Ping.fm was an advertising-supported social networking and micro-blogging web service that enabled users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously. Making an update on Ping.fm pushed the update to a number of different social websites ...

, a microblog social network * Ping, an ability in the trading card game '' Magic: The Gathering''

People

Names

* Ping (given name) *

Ping (surname) Ping is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized P'ing in Wade–Giles. Ping is listed 95th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most co ...

(平), a Chinese surname *

Bing (Chinese surname) Bing is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized Ping in Wade–Giles. Bing is listed 214th in the Song dynasty classic text ''Hundred Family Surnames''. It is not among the 300 most ...

(邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles

People with the nickname

* Frank Steven

Ping Bodie Frank Stephen "Ping" Bodie (October 8, 1887 – December 17, 1961), born Francesco Stephano Pezzolo,Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson Panfilo "Ping" Morena Lacson Sr. (; born June 1, 1948) is a Filipino former politician and police general who served as a Senator for three terms: from 2001 to 2013 and from 2016 to 2022. He was the Director General of the Philippine National ...

(born 1948), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate

Places

Ping, Washington Ping is an unincorporated community in Garfield County, in the U.S. state of Washington Washington commonly refers to: * Washington (state), United States * Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States ** A metonym for the federal governme ...

, a community in the United States *

Ping River The Ping River ( th, แม่น้ำปิง, , ), along with the Nan River, is one of the two main tributaries of the Chao Phraya River. It originates at Doi Thuai in the Daen Lao Range, in Chiang Dao district, Chiang Mai province. After pas ...

, Thailand

Science and technology

Computing

Ping (blogging) In blogging, a ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. An XML-RPC signal is sent from the weblog to one or more Ping servers, as specified by originating weblog), to notify a l ...

, used for blogs, RSS, and related web services *

Ping (networking utility) ping is a computer network administration software utility used to test the reachability of a host on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. It is available for virtually all operating systems that have networking capability, including most embedde ...

, a computer network monitoring tool *

PING (PNG) Portable Network Graphics (PNG, officially pronounced , colloquially pronounced ) is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange ...

, graphics file format *

Ping (video games) In computers, lag is delay ( latency) between the action of the user (input) and the reaction of the server supporting the task, which has to be sent back to the client. The player's ability to tolerate lag depends on the type of game being pl ...

, the network latency between computers used in online gaming * iTunes Ping, a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes

Other uses in science and technology

Ping (unit) A ''pyeong'' (abbreviationpy) is a Korean unit of area and floorspace, equal to a square '' kan'' or 36square Korean feet. The ''ping'' and ''tsubo'' are its equivalent Taiwanese and Japanese units, similarly based on a square '' bu'' ( ja:步) ...

, the Chinese equivalent of pyeong (坪), a Korean unit of area * Ping, a pulse of sound in

active sonar Sonar (sound navigation and ranging or sonic navigation and ranging) is a technique that uses sound propagation (usually underwater, as in submarine navigation) to navigate, measure distances (ranging), communicate with or detect objects on or ...

Ping project The European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) is an international scientific network and interest group that aims to enhance bioinformatics services by bringing together bioinformatics expertises and capacities. On 2011 EMBnet has 37 nodes spread ...

, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) *

Pinging In spark ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel mixture in the cylinder does not result from propagation of the flame front ignite ...

, a noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines

Other uses

* Ping (golf), a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment * Bing (bread), also written as "ping", a type of Chinese flat bread * "The Ping", a phenomenon present in the Fury and Hecla Strait