Kangaroo (disambiguation)

A kangaroo is a large marsupial which is endemic to Australia.

Kangaroo may also refer to:

Aircraft and aviation

• The Kangaroo, a Cessna aircraft flown by Eddie August Schneider
• Blackburn Kangaroo, a British World War I heavy bomber
• Kangaroo Route, a term for commercial flights between Europe and Australasia via the Eastern Hemisphere

Businesses

• KangaROOS, an American brand of athletic shoe
• Kangaroo Express, the name of some of the convenience stores operated by the American convenience-store chain The Pantry

Chess

• The Kangaroo Defence, an opening also known as the Keres Defence

Child care

• Kangaroo care, a way of holding a prematurely-born infant with skin-to-skin contact

Cuisine

• Kangaroo meat, the meat of any of the species of kangaroo

Cycling

• Kangaroo unicycle, a type of unicycle that has both the cranks facing in the same direction; see Unicycle#Variations

Fictional characters

• Kangaroo (comics), an enemy of Spider-Man in comics

Film

• Kangaroo (1952 film), an American film directed by Lewis Milestone
• Kangaroo (1986 film), an Australian film based on the 1923 D.H. Lawrence novel Kangaroo
• Kangaroo (2007 film), a Malayalam film directed by Raj Babu starring Prithviraj Sukumaran

Geography

• Kangaroo Island, Australia's third-largest island
• Kangaroo Island (Shark Bay), an island in Shark Bay in Western Australia
• East Kangaroo Island, an island and nature reserve in the Big Green Island Group, a part of Tasmania in southeastern Australia
• Kangaroo Lake, a lake in Door County, Wisconsin, in the United States

Government

• Kangaroo, a procedure of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

Language

• Kangaroo word, a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning

Law

• Kangaroo court, a sham legal proceeding

Literature

• Kangaroo (novel), a 1923 novel by D. H. Lawrence

Mathematics

• Mathematical Kangaroo, or International Mathematical Kangaroo, an annual international children's mathematics competition

Military vehicles

• Kangaroo (armoured personnel carrier), a Canadian-designed World War II armoured personnel carrier used by the United Kingdom and British Commonwealth forces
• Raduga Kh-20 (NATO designation AS-3 Kangaroo), a cruise missile armed with a nuclear warhead which was developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War

Money

• Gold kangaroo, a term for the Australian gold bullion coin minted by the Perth Mint

Music

• "Kangaroo" (or "Kanga Roo"), a song by Big Star from the album Third/Sister Lovers, notably covered by This Mortal Coil and Jeff Buckley
• "Kangaroo", a single by Arab on Radar

Ships

• HMAS Kangaroo, a Royal Australian Navy boom defence vessel in commission from 1940 to 1955
• HMS Kangaroo, the name of several British Royal Navy ships
• MV Kangaroo, the name of a Western Australian state ship
• USCGC Kangaroo (1917), a United States Coast Guard patrol boat, renamed USCGC AB-6 in 1923, in commission from 1919 to 1932
• USS Kangaroo, the name of more than one United States Navy ship

Sports

• Kangaroo Hoppet, an Australian cross-country skiing race
• The Kangaroos, nickname of the Australia national rugby league team
• The Kangaroos, nickname of the North Melbourne Football Club
• KangaROOS, an American brand of athletic shoe
• UMKC Kangaroos, the athletics team of University of Missouri–Kansas City

Television

• Captain Kangaroo, an American children's television series broadcast from 1955 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1993

Video Games

• Kangaroo (video game), a 1982 video game based on the marsupial.

Other

• Kangaroo (Bus ticketing scheme), a bus ticketing scheme operated in Nottingham, UK