Pogo, PoGo or POGO may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

* Pogo stick, a toy used for jumping up and down with the aid of a spring ** Extreme Pogo, an action sport on specially designed "extreme" pogo sticks *

Pogo ball A Lolo Ball, also known as a POGO BAL, Springbal, Lolobal, Disc-O, Pogo ball, or Pogo-It, is a toy. It consists of a seamless figure-8 rubber ball locked into a structurally supported, sturdy plastic platform. To play with it, one stands on the p ...

, a toy similar to a pogo stick, based on a rubber ball

Gaming

* Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator, a designation given to a Philippines-based online gaming company * '' Pogo Joe'', a video game * Pogo.com, a website featuring free online games * '' Pokémon Go'', a mobile video game sometimes abbreviated as "PoGo"

Music

* "Pogo," a song by Digitalism * Pogo cello, a folk percussion instrument * Pogo Pops, a pop rock band

Other arts, entertainment and media

* ''Pogo'' (comic strip), by Walt Kelly, and its title character * Pogo (dance), a dance style * Pogo Plane, a fictional airplane * Pogo (TV channel), an Indian cable television channel

Organizations

Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany The Anarchistic Pogo Party of Germany (German: ''Anarchistische Pogo-Partei Deutschlands'', or 'APPD') is the self-declared party of the ''Pöbel'' (mob) and " social parasites". It was created in 1981 by two punks in Hannover and took part in ...

Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans The Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO), which was founded in 1999, is a consortium of major oceanographic institutions around the world, represented by their Directors. POGO's goal is to promote global operational oceanograph ...

, an oceanography organization * Project On Government Oversight, US anti-corruption organization * Pogo Structures, a French boat building company

People

Pogo (musician) Christopher Nicholas "Nick" Bertke (born 26 July 1988), better known by his stage name Pogo, which is symbolized by an icon of a rabbit, is a South African-born Australian electronic musician. Much of his work consists of recording small sounds ...

(b. 1988), electronic musician * Ellison Pogo (1947–2013), Archbishop of Melanesia * Mr. Pogo (Tetsuo Sekigawa, 1951–2017), Japanese professional wrestler, used the gimmick from 1978 to his death * Hideki Hosaka (Mr. Pogo (II), born 1971), Japanese professional wrestler, briefly adopted the gimmick in 2017 * Shadow WX (Mr. Pogo (III) or Satoru Shiga, born 1969), Japanese professional wrestler; adopted the gimmick in 2021 * Pogo the Clown or John Wayne Gacy (1942–1994), American serial killer * Madonna Wayne Gacy (born 1964), nicknamed Pogo

Places

* Pogo, Alabama, US * Pogo, Ivory Coast * Pogo, Mali * Pogo, Ferkessédougou, Ivory Coast * POGO tracking station, Greenland, a remote station located near Thule Air Base, operated by the U.S. Space Force

Technology

* Bell Pogo, a two-person rocket-powered platform *

Convair XFY Pogo The Convair XFY Pogo was an experiment in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tail-sitter. The Pogo had delta wings and three-bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a turboprop engine. It was intended to be a high-performance fighter ai ...

, an experimental aircraft * Pogo oscillation, a potentially dangerous rocket engine behavior * PoGo, a mobile printer by Polaroid Corporation * Pogo pin, a device used in electronics to connect two printed circuit boards

Computing

* AT&T Pogo, a web browser * Pogo Mobile and nVoy, a handheld networked device launched in 2000 * Profile-guided optimization (PGO, sometimes pronounced ''pogo''), in computer programming

Other uses

* Pogo (food), also known as a corn dog * Pogo (gorilla), a female gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo, US