Pogo

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Pogo may refer to:

In entertainment:

• Pogo stick, a toy used for hopping up and down
  • Stunt Pogo, the act of doing stunts or tricks on a pogo stick
• Pogo ball, a toy consisting of a rubber ball locked into a sturdy plastic platform, used for hopping up and down as with a pogo stick
• Pogo (dance), a dance style
• Pogo Joe, a video game
• Pogo.com, a website
• Pogo, a skateboarding trick

In music:

• Pogo Pops, a pop rock band
• "Pogo", a song by Digitalism
• Pogo Au Go-Go, an album by Bickley
• Pogo cello, a folk percussion instrument
• "Pogo Dancing", a song by Bela B.
• Pogo (musician), a Capetonian electronic musician

In fiction:

• Pogo (comics), a comic strip created by Walt Kelly in 1943
• The Pogo Plane, a fictional airplane used by the Fantastic Four

In businesses:

• Pogo TV, a cable television Channel
• Pogo Producing, a Texan company
• Project on Government Oversight, a non-profit organization that investigates corruption and other misconduct in the United States federal government
• Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany

In places:

• Pogo, Côte d'Ivoire
• Pogo, Alabama, a place in Franklin County, Alabama
• Pogo, Mali, a place in Ségou Region

In technology:

• Bell Pogo, a small rocket-powered platform that carries two people
• Pogo Mobile and nVoy, an early handheld networked device launched in the UK, circa 2000
• XFY Pogo, another name for the Convair XFY, an experimental aircraft
• Pogo oscillation, a potentially dangerous type of oscillation found in rocket engines
• PoGo, a digital printer created by the Polaroid Corporation

In other uses:

• Pogo (food) or corn dog
• Pogo (gorilla), a gorilla once housed at the San Francisco Zoo
• AT&T Pogo, a Mozilla Firefox based web browser in development by AT&T

[edit] People

• DJ Pogo, a DJ/Producer from London
• "Pogo", nickname for Madonna Wayne Gacy, ex-keyboard player for Marilyn Manson
• Pogo the Clown or John Wayne Gacy (1942-1994), American serial killer
• Mr. Pogo or Tetsuo Sekigawa (born 1951), Japanese professional wrestler

[edit] See also

• Poco, a countryrock-band from California
• Ogopogo, a Canadian lake monster

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