Ping may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
Fictional characters
- Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck in the illustrated book The Story about Ping, first published in 1933
- Ping, a minor character in Seinfeld, an NBC sitcom
- Ping, a character in the webcomic Megatokyo
- Ping, the disguised identity of Hua Mulan in the animated film Mulan
- Ping the Elastic Man, a comic strip character introduced in The Beano in 1938
- "The machine that goes Ping!", a fictitious obstetric medical device featured in the film Monty Python's The Meaning of Life
- Mr. Ping, a character in the Kung Fu Panda franchise
- Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella
- Ping, a character in Carole Wilkinson's novel Dragonkeeper
Other uses in arts and entertainment
- "Ping" (short story), by Samuel Beckett
- Ping!, a 2000 film featuring Shirley Jones
- Ping.fm, a microblog social network
- Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
People
Names
- Ping (given name)
- Ping (surname) (平), a Chinese surname
- Bing (Chinese surname) (邴), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles
People with the nickname
- Frank Steven Ping Bodie (1887–1961), Major League Baseball player
- Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson (born 1948), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate
Places
- Ping, Washington, a community in the United States
- Ping River, Thailand
Science and technology
Computing
- Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
- Ping (networking utility), a computer network monitoring tool
- PING (PNG), graphics file format
- Ping (video games), the network latency between computers used in online gaming
- iTunes Ping, a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes
Other uses in science and technology
- Ping (unit), the Chinese equivalent of pyeong (坪), a Korean unit of area
- Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
- Ping project, a project of the European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)
- Pinging, a noise indicative of improper combustion in internal combustion engines
Other uses
- Ping (golf), a manufacturer and brand name of golf equipment
- Bing (bread), also written as "ping", a type of Chinese flat bread
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Ping
- All pages with titles containing Ping
- Pinge (surname)
- Pinger (disambiguation)
- PNG (disambiguation)
- Bing (disambiguation)
- Ding (disambiguation)