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

Music

  • "Pogo", a song by Digitalism
  • Pogo cello, a folk percussion instrument
  • 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 satellite and 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
  • Hideki Hosaka (1971–2021), Japanese professional wrestler, briefly known as "Mr. Pogo (II)" in 2017
  • Madonna Wayne Gacy (born 1964), musician nicknamed "Pogo"
  • Mr. Pogo (Tetsuo Sekigawa, 1951–2017), Japanese professional wrestler
  • Pogo (musician) (born 1988), electronic musician
  • Pogo the Clown or John Wayne Gacy (1942–1994), American serial killer
  • Shadow WX (Satoru Shiga, born 1969), Japanese professional wrestler; adopted the name "Mr. Pogo (III)" in 2021

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, USA
  • The Pogo mine is a gold mine in the state of Alaska, USA

See also

  • 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