Pogo, PoGo or POGO may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Gaming

* Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator, any Philippines-based online gambling service *

Pogo.com Pogo.com (stylized as pogo) is a free online gaming website that offers over 50 casual games from brands like Hasbro and PopCap Games. It offers a variety of card and board games to puzzle, sports and word games. It is owned by Electronic Arts ...

, a website featuring free online games

Music

* "Pogo", a song by Digitalism *

Pogo cello {{Use mdy dates, date=January 2020 The pogo cello is a percussion instrument in the idiophone family. This instrument can be heard in the skiffle bands of England, jug bands from the United States, as well as some blues, bluegrass, folk and rock ...

, a folk percussion instrument *

Pogo Pops Pogo Pops (established in 1987 under the name of The Doomsville Boys) was a pop rock band from Bergen, Norway. The band split up in 1996 after four albums, but reformed in 2006. Biography The Doomsville Boys were a trio and released an EP in ...

, a pop rock band

Other arts, entertainment and media

* ''Pogo'' (comic strip), by Walt Kelly, and its title character *

Pogo (dance) The pogo is a dance in which the dancers jump up and down, while either remaining on the spot or moving around; the dance takes its name from its resemblance to the use of a pogo stick, especially in a common version of the dance, where one keeps ...

, a dance style * Pogo Plane, an airplane in ''The Fantastic Four'' comics *

Pogo (TV channel) Pogo is an Indian pay television channel owned and operated by Warner Bros. Discovery India under its International division, as part of Cartoon Network India as the network's sister channel. It was launched on 1 January 2004. It broadcasts ...

, an Indian satellite and cable television channel *

Phinneus Pogo ''The Umbrella Academy'' is a comic book series created and written by Gerard Way and illustrated by Gabriel Bá. It was adapted into a television series on Netflix, with three ten-episode seasons and a final six-episode season. ''The Umbrella Ac ...

, a sapient chimpanzee in the comic and TV series ''The Umbrella Academy''

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 t ...

* Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans * Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator * Project on Government Oversight, US anti-corruption organization *

Pogo Structures Pogo Structures is a French boat builder founded in Quimper by Christian Bouroullec in 1987. The company moved in 1990 to Combrit, specializes in the design and manufacture of racing and cruising sailboats. It launched its first motor boat in ...

, a French boat building company

People

Ellison Pogo Sir Ellison Leslie Pogo KBE (also Pogolamana; 1948 – 13 May 2013) was a Solomon Islands Anglican bishop. He was the Archbishop of Melanesia and Bishop of Central Melanesia from 1994 until December 9, 2008. He was the third Archbishop of Melanes ...

(1947–2013), Archbishop of Melanesia *

Hideki Hosaka (August 5, 1971 – August 2, 2021) was a Japanese professional wrestler, who is best known for his work in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, All Japan Pro Wrestling, and Pro Wrestling Zero-One. Career Early career (1991–1993) An amateur wrest ...

(1971–2021), Japanese professional wrestler, briefly known as "Mr. Pogo (II)" in 2017 *

Madonna Wayne Gacy Stephen Bier, formerly known by his stage name Madonna Wayne Gacy and by the nickname Pogo, is an American musician who was the keyboard player for Marilyn Manson from 1989 to 2007. His stage name came from the names of the singer Madonna and t ...

(born 1964), musician nicknamed "Pogo" * Mr. Pogo (Tetsuo Sekigawa, 1951–2017), Japanese professional wrestler *

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 ...

(born 1988), electronic musician * Pogo the Clown or John Wayne Gacy (1942–1994), American serial killer *

Shadow WX is a professional wrestler best known for his time in Big Japan Pro Wrestling under the ring name Shadow WX. He debuted in 1995 in IWA Japan and moved to Big Japan in 1996, where he became a protege of Mr. Pogo and won the BJW Deathmatch Heavyw ...

(Satoru Shiga, born 1969), Japanese professional wrestler; adopted the name "Mr. Pogo (III)" in 2021

Places

* Pogo, Alabama, US *

Pogo, Ivory Coast Pogo is a village in the far north of Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Toumoukoro, Ouangolodougou Department, Tchologo Region, Savanes District. Two kilometres north of the village is a border crossing with Mali Mali, officially ...

Pogo, Mali Pogo is a village and rural commune in the Cercle of Niono in the Ségou Region of Mali Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the List of African countries by area, eighth-largest country in A ...

Pogo, Ferkessédougou Pogonissonkaha (often shortened to Pogo) is a village in the far north of Ivory Coast. It is in the sub-prefecture of Ferkessédougou, Ferkessédougou Department, Tchologo, Savanes District Savanes District (, , " Savannahs") is one of fourteen ...

, Ivory Coast *

POGO (tracking station) Pituffik Space Base ( ; ; ), formerly Thule Air Base (), is a United States Space Force base located on the northwest coast of Greenland in the Kingdom of Denmark under a defense agreement between Denmark and the United States. 150 United Stat ...

, Greenland, operated by the US Space Force

Technology

Bell Pogo The Bell Pogo was an experimental rocket vehicle that was designed by Bell Aircraft for NASA.http://www.thunderman.net/products/entertaining.php Its function was to transport one or two astronauts on the lunar surface. The Pogo never went into prod ...

, a two-person rocket-powered platform *

Convair XFY Pogo The Convair XFY-1 Pogo is an experimental VTOL, V/STOL (vertical/short takeoff and landing) aircraft developed during the early years of the Cold War. It was intended to be a high-performance fighter aircraft capable of operating from small wars ...

, an experimental aircraft *

Pogo oscillation Pogo oscillation is a self-excited vibration in liquid-propellant rocket engines caused by Rocket engine#Combustion instabilities, combustion instability. The unstable combustion results in variations of engine thrust, causing variations of accele ...

, a potentially dangerous rocket engine behavior * PoGo, a mobile printer by

Polaroid Corporation Polaroid Corporation was an American company that made instant film and cameras, which survives as a brand for consumer electronics. The company was founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land, to exploit his Polaroid (polarizer), Polaroid polarizing polyme ...

Pogo pin A pogo pin or spring-loaded pin is a type of electrical connector mechanism with spring plungers that is used in many modern electronic applications and in the electronics testing industry. They are used for their improved durability over other ...

, a device used in electronics to connect two printed circuit boards

Computing

AT&T Pogo AT&T Pogo was a Mozilla Firefox based web browser developed by AT&T and Vizible. A private beta was released to a limited number of users, but the project was terminated when Vizible sold its intellectual property to Open Text. Features Feature ...

, a web browser *

Pogo Mobile and nVoy The ''Pogo Mobile'' was a GSM-based mobile device developed by British start-up Pogo Technology Ltd. It combined web browsing, messaging, audio playback and phone functionality in a portable form. It used a server-side compression system to shrin ...

, a handheld networked device launched in 2000 *

Profile-guided optimization In computer programming, profile-guided optimization (PGO, sometimes pronounced as ''pogo''), also known as profile-directed feedback (PDF) or feedback-directed optimization (FDO), is the compiler optimization technique of using prior analyses of ...

(PGO, sometimes pronounced ''pogo''), in computer programming

Sports and recreation

Pogo stick A pogo stick is a vehicle for jumping off the ground in a standing position—through the aid of a spring, or new high performance technologies—often used as a toy, exercise equipment or extreme sports instrument. It led to an extreme sport n ...

, a toy used for jumping up and down with the aid of a spring **

Extreme Pogo Extreme Pogo is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a pogo stick. The sport draws inspiration from other action sports such as skateboarding, BMX, and parkour. Athletes will have various focuses in tricks or street sty ...

, an action sport on specially designed "extreme" pogo sticks * Pogo ball, a toy similar to a pogo stick, based on a rubber ball

Other uses

* Pogo, a brand of

corn dog A corn dog (also spelled corndog and also known by #Name variations, several other names) is a hot dog on a stick that has been coated in a thick layer of cornmeal Batter (cooking), batter and Deep frying, deep fried. It originated in the Unite ...

in some parts of Canada * Pogo (gorilla), a female gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo, US