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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

[edit] 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

[edit] Animals

• The kangaroo, a large Australian marsupial.

[edit] 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

[edit] Chess

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

[edit] Child care

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

[edit] Cuisine

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

[edit] Cycling

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

[edit] Fictional characters

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Government

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

[edit] Language

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

[edit] Law

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

[edit] Literature

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

[edit] Mathematics

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

[edit] 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

[edit] Money

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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] Television

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

[edit] Video games

• Kangaroo (video game), a 1982 arcade game

[edit] 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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