# Ping

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**Ping** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

### Fictional characters

- Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book *[The Story about Ping](/source/The_Story_about_Ping)*, first published in 1933
- Ping, [a minor character in *Seinfeld*](/source/List_of_Seinfeld_minor_characters#Characters_appearing_in_2_to_4_episodes), an NBC sitcom
- Pingg, a character from *[Pingu](/source/Pingu)*
- Ping, the alias of Hua Mulan in the animated film *[Mulan](/source/Mulan_(1998_film))*
- *[Ping the Elastic Man](/source/Ping_the_Elastic_Man)*, a comic character introduced in *The Beano* in 1938
- Professor Ping, a character in the film *[Barbarella](/source/Barbarella_(film))*
- Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novel *[Dragonkeeper](/source/Dragonkeeper)*
- [Po (*Kung Fu Panda*)](/source/Po_(Kung_Fu_Panda)), the protagonist of the *Kung Fu Panda* franchise - Mr. Ping, Po's [adopted father](/source/List_of_Kung_Fu_Panda_characters#Mr._Ping)

### Other uses in arts and entertainment

- ["Ping" (short story)](/source/Ping_(short_story)), by Samuel Beckett
- *Ping!*, a 2000 film featuring [Shirley Jones](/source/Shirley_Jones)
- Ping, an ability in the trading card game *[Magic: The Gathering](/source/Magic:_The_Gathering)*

## People

- [Ping (given name)](/source/Ping_(given_name))
- [Ping (surname)](/source/Ping_(surname)) (平), a Chinese surname
- [Bing (Chinese surname)](/source/Bing_(Chinese_surname)) (邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles
- [Ping (nickname)](/source/Ping_(nickname))

## Places

- [Ping River](/source/Ping_River), Thailand
- [Ping Island](/source/Ping_Island), Yongzhou, Hunan, China

## Science and technology

### Computing

- [Ping (blogging)](/source/Ping_(blogging)), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
- [Ping (networking utility)](/source/Ping_(networking_utility)), a computer network monitoring tool
- [Ping (video games)](/source/Ping_(video_games)), the network latency between computers used in online gaming
- [Mention (blogging)](/source/Mention_(blogging)), a reference to a user profile, especially called a "ping" when this delivers a notification sound
- [Ping.fm](/source/Ping.fm), a defunct microblog social network
- [iTunes Ping](/source/ITunes_Ping), a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes
- [Ping Identity](/source/Ping_Identity), an American software company

### Other uses in science and technology

- [Ping (unit)](/source/Ping_(unit)), the Chinese equivalent of pyeong (坪), a Korean unit of area
- Ping, a pulse of sound in [active sonar](/source/Active_sonar)
- [Ping project](/source/Ping_project), a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)
- [Pinging](/source/Pinging), a noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines
- [Epsilon Leporis](/source/Epsilon_Leporis), a star also named Ping

## Other uses

- [Ping (golf)](/source/Ping_(golf)), a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
- [Bing (bread)](/source/Bing_(bread)), also written as "ping", a type of Chinese flat bread
- "The Ping", a phenomenon present in the [Fury and Hecla Strait](/source/Fury_and_Hecla_Strait), Canada

## See also

- [Pinge](/source/Pinge) (surname)
- [PNG (disambiguation)](/source/PNG_(disambiguation))

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