Kangaroo (disambiguation)

A kangaroo is a large marsupial endemic to Australia.

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
 * Vulcanair Canguro, Italian civil utility aircraft in the 1980s
 * The Kangaroo, a Cessna Model AW with a Warner-Scarab engine owned by Eddie August Henry Schneider

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), 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
 * The Kangaroo Kid (film), a 1950 Australian-American western film directed by Lesley Selander
 * The Kangaroo, a short film produced by Vickie Gest

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

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

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