Kangaroo (disambiguation)
A kangaroo is a large marsupial endemic to Australia.
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Kangaroo may also refer to:
Aircraft and aerospace
- Blackburn Kangaroo, a British World War I heavy bomber
- Kangaroo Route, a term for commercial flights between Europe and Australasia via the Eastern Hemisphere
- PWN-9 Kangaroo, a 1969 American sounding rocket project
- Sol Kangaroo, a Brazilian paraglider design
Fiction and fictional characters
- Kangaroo (novel), a story by D.H.Lawrence
- Kangaroo (comics), an enemy of Spider-Man in comics
Film
- Kangaroo (1952 film), an American film directed by Lewis Milestone
- Kangaroo (1987 film), an Australian film based on the 1923 D.H. Lawrence novel Kangaroo
- Kangaroo (2007 film), a Malayalam film directed by Raj Babu starring Prithviraj Sukumaran
- Kangaroo (2015 film)
- Kangaroo (2017 film), an Australian film directed by Mike McIntyre and Kate McIntyre Clere
Geography
Generally
Australia
- East Kangaroo Island, an island in Tasmania
- Kangaroo Island, an island in South Australia
- Kangaroo Head, a headland
- Kangaroo Head, South Australia, a locality
Elsewhere
- Kangaroo Lake (California), a lake in California, United States
- Kangaroo Lake (Wisconsin), a lake in Wisconsin, United States
- Kangaru, Iran, a village
- Kangaru, Kenya, a village
Military vehicles
- Kangaroo (armoured personnel carrier), an expedient conversion of a tank into an armoured personnel carrier during World War II by British Commonwealth forces
- Raduga Kh-20 (NATO designation AS-3 Kangaroo), a cruise missile armed with a nuclear warhead which was developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War
Music
- "Kangaroo" (or "Kanga Roo"), a song by Big Star from the album Third/Sister Lovers, notably covered by This Mortal Coil and Jeff Buckley
- "Kangaroo", a single by Arab on Radar
- "Kangaroo", a single by Julian Jordan and Sander van Doorn
- Kangaroo, a precursor to the American band Holy Moses
Ships
- HMAS Kangaroo, a Royal Australian Navy boom defence vessel in commission from 1940 to 1955
- HMS Kangaroo, the name of several British Royal Navy ships
- USCGC Kangaroo (1917), a United States Coast Guard patrol boat, renamed USCGC AB-6 in 1923, in commission from 1919 to 1932
- USS Kangaroo, the name of more than one United States Navy ship
Sports
- Kangaroos, the nickname of the Australia national rugby league team
- Kangaroos, the nickname of the North Melbourne Football Club of the Australian Football League
- Kangaroo Hoppet, an Australian cross-country skiing race
- KangaRoos, an American brand of athletic shoe
- UMKC Kangaroos, the athletics team of University of Missouri–Kansas City
- The mascot of Lake Washington High School in Kirkland, WA
Other uses
- The Kangaroo Defence, a chess opening also known as the Keres Defence
- Kangaroo care, a way of holding a prematurely-born infant with skin-to-skin contact
- Kangaroo meat, the meat of any of the species of kangaroo
- Kangaroo rat, a small rodent in western United States
- Kangaroo unicycle, a type of unicycle that has both the cranks facing in the same direction
- Kangaroo, a procedure of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
- Kangaroo word, a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning
- Kangaroo court, a sham legal proceeding
- Kangaroo (novel), a 1923 novel by D. H. Lawrence
- Mathematical Kangaroo, or International Mathematical Kangaroo, an annual international children's mathematics competition
- Gold kangaroo, a term for the Australian gold bullion coin minted by the Perth Mint
- Kangaroo (video game), a 1982 video game based on the marsupial
- Kangaroo (Bus ticketing scheme), a bus ticketing scheme operated in Nottingham, UK
- Kangaroo Express, a chain of convenience stores in the US
- Kangaroo (video on demand), a proposed video on demand platform
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