Pogo

Pogo, PoGo or POGO may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Gaming

• Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator, any Philippines-based online gambling service
• Pogo.com, a website featuring free online games
• Pokémon Go, a mobile video game sometimes abbreviated as "PoGo"

Music

• "Pogo," a song by Digitalism
• Pogo cello, a folk percussion instrument
• Pogo (musician) (born 1988), electronic musician
• Pogo Pops, a pop rock band

Other arts, entertainment and media

• Pogo (comic strip), by Walt Kelly, and its title character
• Pogo (dance), a dance style
• Pogo Plane, an airplane in The Fantastic Four comics
• Pogo (TV channel), an Indian cable television channel
• Phinneus Pogo, a sapient chimpanzee in the comic and TV series The Umbrella Academy

Organizations

• Anarchist Pogo Party of Germany
• Partnership for Observation of the Global Oceans
• Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator
• Project On Government Oversight, US anti-corruption organization
• Pogo Structures, a French boat building company

People

• Ellison Pogo (1947–2013), Archbishop of Melanesia
• Mr. Pogo (Tetsuo Sekigawa, 1951–2017), Japanese professional wrestler
• Hideki Hosaka (1971–2021), Japanese professional wrestler, briefly known as "Mr. Pogo (II)" in 2017
• Shadow WX (Satoru Shiga, born 1969), Japanese professional wrestler; adopted the name "Mr. Pogo (III)" in 2021
• Pogo the Clown or John Wayne Gacy (1942–1994), American serial killer
• Madonna Wayne Gacy (born 1964), musician nicknamed "Pogo"
• Tadej Pogačar (born 1998), Slovenian cyclist, nicknamed "PoGo"
• Pogo (musician) (born 1988), electronic musician

Places

• Pogo, Alabama, US
• Pogo, Ivory Coast
• Pogo, Mali
• Pogo, Ferkessédougou, Ivory Coast
• POGO (tracking station), Greenland, operated by the US Space Force

Technology

• Bell Pogo, a two-person rocket-powered platform
• Convair XFY Pogo, an experimental aircraft
• Pogo oscillation, a potentially dangerous rocket engine behavior
• PoGo, a mobile printer by Polaroid Corporation
• Pogo pin, a device used in electronics to connect two printed circuit boards

Computing

• AT&T Pogo, a web browser
• Pogo Mobile and nVoy, a handheld networked device launched in 2000
• Profile-guided optimization (PGO, sometimes pronounced pogo), in computer programming

Sports and recreation

• Pogo stick, a toy used for jumping up and down with the aid of a spring
  • Extreme Pogo, 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 in some parts of Canada
• Pogo (gorilla), a female gorilla at the San Francisco Zoo, US

See also

• All pages with titles containing Pogo
• Pogo Joe, a video game
• Pogopalooza, the annual gathering and competition of stunt pogoers
• Bogo (disambiguation)
• PGO (disambiguation)
• Pogoriki, a character in the American children's television series GoGoRiki