Ping may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book The Story about Ping, first published in 1933
  • Ping, a minor character in Seinfeld, an NBC sitcom
  • Pingg, a character from Pingu
  • Ping, the alias of Hua Mulan in the animated film Mulan
  • Ping the Elastic Man, a comic character introduced in The Beano in 1938
  • Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella
  • Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novel Dragonkeeper
  • Po (Kung Fu Panda), the protagonist of the Kung Fu Panda franchise
  • Mr. Ping, Po's adopted father

Other uses in arts and entertainment

  • "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett
  • Ping!, a 2000 film featuring Shirley Jones
  • Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering

People

  • Ping (given name)
  • Ping (surname) (平), a Chinese surname
  • Bing (Chinese surname) (邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles
  • Ping (nickname)

Places

  • Ping River, Thailand
  • Ping Island, Yongzhou, Hunan, China

Science and technology

Computing

  • Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
  • Ping (networking utility), a computer network monitoring tool
  • Ping (video games), the network latency between computers used in online gaming
  • Mention (blogging), a reference to a user profile, especially called a "ping" when this delivers a notification sound
  • Ping.fm, a defunct microblog social network
  • iTunes Ping, a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes
  • Ping Identity, an American software company

Other uses in science and technology

  • Ping (unit), the Chinese equivalent of pyeong (坪), a Korean unit of area
  • Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
  • Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)
  • Pinging, a noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines
  • Epsilon Leporis, a star also named Ping

Other uses

  • Ping (golf), a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
  • Bing (bread), also written as "ping", a type of Chinese flat bread
  • "The Ping", a phenomenon present in the Fury and Hecla Strait, Canada

See also

  • Pinge (surname)
  • PNG (disambiguation)