Ping

Ping may refer to:

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
 * Ping, a character in the webcomic Megatokyo
 * Ping, the alias of Hua Mulan in the animated film Mulan
 * Ping the Elastic Man, a comic strip 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) or Ping Xiao Po, 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

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

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