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 ...

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Ping the Elastic Man ''Ping the Elastic Man'' (also named ''Here Comes Ping the Elastic Man'') was a British comic strip that appeared in ''The Beano''. It was about a boy who could stretch his limbs as if they were made of elastic and was created by Hugh McNeill. ...

'', 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''

Other uses in arts and entertainment

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

Shirley Jones Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American actress and singer. In her six decades in show business, she has starred as wholesome characters in a number of musical films, such as ''Oklahoma!'' (1955), '' Carousel'' (1956), and ''The M ...

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 is a Chinese given name borne by (in chronological order): Ancient China: * King Ping of Zhou (died 720 BC), Chinese king * Duke Ping of Jin (died 532 BC), ruler of Jin * Duke Ping of Cao (died 524 BC), ruler of Cáo * ...

* Ping (surname) (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 m ...

(邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles

People with the nickname

* Frank Steven Ping Bodie (1887–1961), Major League Baseball player *

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, 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 pa ...

, 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 ...

, 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 embed ...

, a computer network monitoring tool * PING (PNG), graphics file format * Ping (video games), 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), 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 o ...

* Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) * Pinging, a noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines

Other uses

Ping (golf) Ping, Inc. (stylized as PING) is an American sports equipment manufacturing company based in Phoenix, Arizona. It focuses on golf equipment, producing golf clubs and golf bags. The company was founded by Karsten Solheim, following a career a ...

, 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 Fury and Hecla Strait is a narrow (from wide) Arctic seawater channel located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. Geography Situated between Baffin Island to the north and the Melville Peninsula to the south, it connects Foxe Basin on ...