Pogo, PoGo or POGO may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Pogo stick A pogo stick is a device 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 name ...

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

Extreme Pogo Extreme Pogo or Xpogo is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks on specially designed "extreme" pogo sticks. These pogo sticks have the potential for jumping over 3 meters in height. Xpogo can be seen in athlete exhibition tea ...

, an action sport on specially designed "extreme" pogo sticks *

Pogo ball A Lolo Ball, also known as a POGO BAL, Springbal, Lolobal, Disc-O, Pogo ball, or Pogo-It, is a toy. It consists of a seamless figure-8 rubber ball locked into a structurally supported, sturdy plastic platform. To play with it, one stands on the p ...

, a toy similar to a pogo stick, based on a rubber ball

Gaming

Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators (POGOs) is the official designation for firms operating in the Philippines which offer online gambling services to markets outside the Philippines. Background Philippine Offshore Gaming Operators or POGOs are on ...

, a designation given to a Philippines-based online gaming company * ''

Pogo Joe ''Pogo Joe'' is an action video game for the Commodore 64 and Atari 8-bit family written by William F. Denman, Jr. Oliver Steele, and Steven Baumrucker and published by Screenplay in 1983. The game is a variant of the 1982 arcade video game '' ...

'', a video game *

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 ...

, a website featuring free online games * ''

Pokémon Go ''Pokémon Go'' (stylized as ''Pokémon GO'') is a 2016 augmented reality (AR) mobile game, part of the ''Pokémon'' franchise, developed and published by Niantic in collaboration with Nintendo and The Pokémon Company for iOS and Android ...

'', a mobile video game sometimes abbreviated as "PoGo"

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 roc ...

, a folk percussion instrument *

Pogo Pops Pogo Pops (established in 1987 under the name of The Doomsville Boys) is 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 19 ...

, 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 The comic book stories published by Marvel Comics since the 1940s have featured several noteworthy concepts besides its fictional characters, such as unique places and artifacts. There follows a list of those features. Places Certain places fe ...

, a fictional airplane *

Pogo (TV channel) Pogo is an Indian cable and satellite 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 ...

, an Indian cable television channel

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 ...

Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans The Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (POGO), which was founded in 1999, is a consortium of major oceanographic institutions around the world, represented by their Directors. POGO's goal is to promote global operational oceanograph ...

, an oceanography organization *

Project On Government Oversight The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, that investigates and works to expose waste, fraud, abuse, and conflicts of interest in the U.S. federal government. According to its web ...

, 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

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 ...

(b. 1988), electronic musician * Ellison Pogo (1947–2013), Archbishop of Melanesia *

Mr. Pogo was a Japanese professional wrestler best known for his work under the ring name . He helped popularize hardcore wrestling in the 1990s with "death matches" in promotions such as Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling, W*ING and Big Japan Pro Wrestlin ...

(Tetsuo Sekigawa, 1951–2017), Japanese professional wrestler, used the gimmick from 1978 to his death *

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 wres ...

(Mr. Pogo (II), born 1971), Japanese professional wrestler, briefly adopted the gimmick in 2017 *

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 Heavy ...

(Mr. Pogo (III) or Satoru Shiga, born 1969), Japanese professional wrestler; adopted the gimmick in 2021 * Pogo the Clown or John Wayne Gacy (1942–1994), American serial killer *

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 ...

(born 1964), nicknamed Pogo

Places

* Pogo, Alabama, US * Pogo, Ivory Coast *

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,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, ...

* Pogo, Ferkessédougou, Ivory Coast * POGO tracking station, Greenland, a remote station located near

Thule Air Base Thule Air Base (pronounced or , kl, Qaanaaq Mitarfik, da, Thule Lufthavn), or Thule Air Base/Pituffik Airport , is the United States Space Force's northernmost base, and the northernmost installation of the U.S. Armed Forces, located north o ...

, operated by the U.S. Space Force

Technology

Bell Pogo The Bell Pogo was an experimental rocket vehicle that was designed by Bell Aircraft for NASA. Its function was to transport one or two astronauts on the lunar surface. The Pogo never went into production. The device Bell Aircraft built several v ...

, a two-person rocket-powered platform *

Convair XFY Pogo The Convair XFY Pogo was an experiment in vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tail-sitter. The Pogo had delta wings and three-bladed contra-rotating propellers powered by a turboprop engine. It was intended to be a high-performance fighter ai ...

, an experimental aircraft *

Pogo oscillation Pogo oscillation is a self-excited vibration in liquid-propellant rocket engines caused by combustion instability. The unstable combustion results in variations of engine thrust, causing variations of acceleration on the vehicle's flexible struct ...

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

Polaroid Corporation Polaroid is an American company best known for its instant film and cameras. The company was founded in 1937 by Edwin H. Land, to exploit the use of its Polaroid polarizing polymer. Land ran the company until 1981. Its peak employment was 21,0 ...

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

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

Computing

* AT&T Pogo, 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 Profile-guided optimization (PGO, sometimes pronounced as ''pogo''), also known as profile-directed feedback (PDF), and feedback-directed optimization (FDO) is a compiler optimization technique in computer programming that uses profiling to impr ...

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

Other uses

* Pogo (food), also known as a corn dog * Pogo (gorilla), a female gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo, US