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A kangaroo is a large marsupial endemic to Australia.

Contents

• Aircraft and aerospace
• Fiction and fictional characters
• Film
• Geography
• Generally
• Australia
• Elsewhere
• Military vehicles
• Music
• Ships
• Sports
• Other uses
• See also

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 (character), an enemy of Spider-Man in comics

Film

• Kangaroo (1952 film), an American film directed by Lewis Milestone
• Kangaroo (1986 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
• Kangaroo (2025 film), an Australian film
• The Kangaroo Kid (film), a 1950 Australian-American western film directed by Lesley Selander

Geography

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

See also

• The Kangaroos (disambiguation)
• Christine Kangaloo

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