Pogo (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Businesses and organizations 2 In recreation and entertainment 2.1 In music 2.2 In fiction 3 People 4 Places 5 In technology 6 Other uses 7 See also

Pogo may refer to:

[edit] Businesses and organizations

• Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans, an organization of research institutions
• Pogo.com, a website
• Pogo TV, a cable television Channel
• Pogo Linux, a Linux company
• Pogo Producing, an American 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
• The Pediatric Oncology Group of Ontario

[edit] In recreation and 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 Commodore 64 video game
• Pogo, a skateboarding trick

[edit] In music

• Pogo Pops, a pop rock band from Bergen, Norway
• "Pogo", a song by the band Digitalism
• Pogo Au Go-Go, a music album by Bickley

[edit] In fiction

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

[edit] People

• DJ Pogo, a DJ/Producer from London
• "Pogo", nickname for Madonna Wayne Gacy, keyboard player for Marilyn Manson
• "Pogo the Clown", a persona used by the serial killer John Wayne Gacy while performing at children's parties
• Tetsuo Sekigawa, "Mr. Pogo", a Japanese professional wrestler

[edit] Places

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

[edit] 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
• Pogo Contact, a device used for probing electronics
• XFY Pogo, another name for the Convair XFY, an experimental jet fighter
• Pogo oscillation, a potentially dangerous type of oscillation found in rocket engines

[edit] Other uses

• Pogo, a popular brand of Corn dog sold in Canada
• Pogo (gorilla), a gorilla once at the San Francisco Zoo

[edit] See also

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

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