Kangaroo (disambiguation)
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A kangaroo is a large marsupial endemic to Australia.
Kangaroo may also refer to:
Aircraft and aerospace
Fiction and fictional characters
Film
Geography
Generally
Australia
Elsewhere
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
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
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
- Kangourou wagon, a specialized railroad car
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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