Kangaroo

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Contents 1 Aircraft and aviation 2 Animals 3 Businesses 4 Chess 5 Child care 6 Cuisine 7 Cycling 8 Fictional characters 9 Film 10 Geography 11 Government 12 Language 13 Law 14 Literature 15 Mathematics 16 Military vehicles 17 Money 18 Ships 19 Sports 20 Television 21 Video games 22 Video platforms

Aircraft and aviation

• The Kangaroo, a Cessna aircraft flown by Eddie August Schneider; see Eddie August Schneider#Aircraft
• Blackburn Kangaroo, a British World War I heavy bomber
• Kangaroo Route, a term for commercial flights between Europe and Australasia via the Eastern Hemisphere

Animals

• The kangaroo, a large Australian marsupial.

Businesses

• KangaROOS, an American brand of athletic shoe
• Kangaroo Express, the name of some of the convenience stores operated by the American convenience-store chain The Pantry

Chess

• The Kangaroo Defence, an opening also known as the Keres Defence

Child care

• Kangaroo care, a way of holding a prematurely-born infant with skin-to-skin contact.

Cuisine

• Kangaroo meat, the meat of any of the species of kangaroo

Cycling

• Kangaroo unicycle, a type of unicycle that has both the cranks facing in the same direction; see Unicycle#Variations

Fictional characters

• Kangaroo (comics), an enemy of Spider-Man in comics

Film

• Kangaroo (film), a 1986 Australian film based on the 1923 D.H. Lawrence novel Kangaroo
• Kangaroo (2008 film), a 2008 Malayalam film directed by Raj Babu starring Prithviraj Sukumaran

Geography

• Kangaroo Island, Australia's third-largest island
• Kangaroo Island (Shark Bay), an island in Shark Bay in Western Australia
• East Kangaroo Island, an island and nature reserve in the Big Green Island Group, a part of Tasmania in southeastern Australia
• Kangaroo Lake, a lake in Door County, Wisconsin, in the United States

Government

• Kangaroo, a procedure of the Parliament of the United Kingdom; see Parliament of the United Kingdom#Legislative functions

Language

• Kangaroo word, a word that contains letters of another word, in order, with the same meaning.

Law

• Kangaroo court, a sham legal proceeding. It often reaches a swift verdict, often without the presence of a jury.

Literature

• Kangaroo (novel), a 1923 novel by D. H. Lawrence

Mathematics

• Mathematical Kangaroo, or International Mathematical Kangaroo, an annual international children's mathematics competition

Military vehicles

• Kangaroo (armoured personnel carrier), a Canadian-designed World War II armoured personnel carrier used by the United Kingdom and 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

Money

• Gold kangaroo, a term for the Australian gold bullion coin minted by the Perth Mint

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

• Kangaroo Hoppet, an Australian cross-country skiing race
• The Kangaroos, nickname of the Australia national rugby league team
• The Kangaroos, nickname of the North Melbourne Football Club
• KangaROOS, an American brand of athletic shoe

Television

• Captain Kangaroo, an American children's television series broadcast from 1955 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1993

Video games

• Kangaroo (video game), a 1982 arcade game

Video platforms

• Kangaroo (video on demand), a video-on-demand platform from BBC, ITV and Channel 4 in the United Kingdom

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