A kangaroo is a large marsupial endemic to Australia.

(The) Kangaroo(s) may also refer to:

Aircraft and aerospace

  • Blackburn Kangaroo, a British World War I heavy bomber
  • The Kangaroo, a Cessna Model AW with a Warner-Scarab engine owned by Eddie August Henry Schneider
  • 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
  • Vulcanair Canguro, Italian civil utility aircraft in the 1980s

Arts and entertainment

Film

  • Kangaroo (1952 film), an American film directed by Lewis Milestone
  • Kangaroo (1986 film), an Australian film based on the 1923 D.H. Lawrence novel Kangaroo
  • Kangaroo (2007 film), an Indian Malayalam film directed by Raj Babu starring Prithviraj Sukumaran
  • Kangaroo (2015 film), an Indian Tamil-language film
  • Kangaroo (2017 film), an Australian film directed by Mike McIntyre and Kate McIntyre Clere
  • Kangaroo (2025 film), an Australian film
  • The Kangaroo Kid (film), a 1950 Australian-American western film directed by Lesley Selander

Music

  • Kangaroo?, a 1981 album by Red Krayola and Art & Language
  • The Kangaroo (song), a 1953 instrumental written and recorded by Les Paul and released as a single
  • "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

Other arts and entertainment

  • Kangaroo (character), an enemy of Spider-Man in comics
  • Kangaroo (novel), a novel by D. H. Lawrence
  • Kangaroo (video game), a 1982 video game based on the marsupial
  • Kangaroo (video on demand), a proposed video on demand platform

Geography

Generally

  • Kangaroo Island (disambiguation)
  • Kangaroo Point (disambiguation)
  • Kangaroo River (disambiguation)

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

Ships

  • , a Royal Australian Navy boom defence vessel in commission from 1940 to 1955
  • , the name of several British Royal Navy ships
  • , a United States Coast Guard patrol boat, renamed USCGC AB-6 in 1923, in commission from 1919 to 1932
  • , the name of more than one United States Navy ship
  • Norah Moller, a vessel operated 1915–1938 as Kangaroo, primarily along the North West Australia coast
  • Yara (ship), named Kangaroo II 1962–1973, a cargo and passenger ship that operated along the North West Australia coast

Sports

  • Fabulous Kangaroos, an Australian professional wrestling team
  • Kangaroo Hoppet, an Australian cross-country skiing race
  • Kangaroos, the nickname of the Australia national rugby league team
  • Kangaroos, the nickname of the North Melbourne Football Club of the Australian Football League
  • KangaRoos, an American brand of athletic shoe
  • Royal Kangaroos, a professional wrestling tag team
  • UMKC Kangaroos, the athletics team of University of Missouri–Kansas City

Other uses

  • Gold kangaroo, a term for the Australian gold bullion coin minted by the Perth Mint
  • Harold "the Kangaroo" Thornton (1915-2005), Australian artist
  • Kangaroo, a procedure of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
  • Kangaroo (bus ticketing scheme), a bus ticketing scheme operated in Nottingham, UK
  • Kangaroo care, a way of holding a prematurely-born infant with skin-to-skin contact
  • Kangaroo court, a sham legal proceeding
  • Kangaroo Defence, a chess opening also known as the Keres Defence
  • Kangaroo Express, a chain of convenience stores in the US
  • 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
  • Kangourou wagon, a specialized railroad car
  • Kangaroo word, a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning
  • Mathematical Kangaroo, or International Mathematical Kangaroo, an annual international children's mathematics competition

See also

  • Christine Kangaloo