# 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
* Kangaroo (2025 film), an Australian film
* The Kangaroo Kid (film), a 1950 Australian-American western film directed by Lesley Selander
* The Kangaroo, a short film produced by Vickie Gest

## Geography
### 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