Technology

• Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
• iTunes Ping
  ITunes Ping
  iTunes Ping, also known simply as Ping, is a software-based, music-oriented social networking and recommender system service developed and operated by Apple. It was announced and launched on 1 September 2010 as part of the tenth major release of iTunes...
  
  , a social network for music built into Apple iTunes
• Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
• PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)
  PING (Partimage Is Not Ghost)
  PING is a free software Linux-based live CD ISO image built upon the Partimage and Linux From Scratch projects for disk cloning or backup purposes. The software supports most hardware platforms using Parallel ATA, Serial ATA, or SCSI systems for desktop computers, workstations, and servers...
  
  ), software for disk cloning or backup
• "Ping" is the proper pronunciation of PNG, short for Portable Network Graphics, a bitmap image format

People

• Panfilo Morena "Ping" Lacson (born 1948), Filipino politician and current member of the Philippine Senate

Fictional characters

• Ping, a domesticated Chinese duck lost on the Yangtze River, whose story is told in the illustrated book The Story about Ping
  The Story about Ping
  The Story About Ping is a popular children's book. First published in 1933, Ping is a colorfully illustrated story about a domesticated Chinese duck lost on the Yangtze River.-Publication information:...
  
   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 Fa Mulan in the animated film Mulan
  Mulan
  Mulan is a 1998 American animated film directed by Tony Bancroft and Barry Cook, with story by Robert D. San Souci and screenplay by Rita Hsiao, Philip LaZebnik, Chris Sanders, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, and Raymond Singer. It was produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney...
  
  
• Ping the Elastic Man
  Ping the Elastic Man
  Ping the Elastic Man was a fictional character who had his own comic strip in the UK comic The Beano. His first appearance was in issue 1, dated 30 July 1938. Ping was an elastic man who could stretch everywhere, the only one in the world...
  
  , 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 Meaning of Life
• Mr. Ping, a character in the film Kung Fu Panda
• Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella
  Barbarella (film)
  Barbarella is a 1968 Franco-Italian science fiction film based on Jean-Claude Forrest's French Barbarella comics. The film was directed by Roger Vadim and stars Jane Fonda, who was Vadim's wife at the time.-Plot:...
  
  

Other

• Ping, (Traditional Chinese Character: 坪), a Taiwanese measure of area
• Ping, an ability in the trading card game Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering
  Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011...
  
  
• Ping project, a European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet) mean to evaluate network efficiency
• Ping River
  Ping River
  The Ping River , along with the Nan River, is one of the two main contributaries of Chao Phraya River. It originates at Doi Chiang Dao in Chiang Dao district, Chiang Mai Province. After passing Chiang Mai town, it flows though the provinces Lamphun, Tak, and Kamphaeng Phet...
  
  , a river in Thailand
• Ping (golf)
  Ping (golf)
  PING is an American brand of high-quality golf equipment, as well as one of the largest of the remaining American manufacturers of golf clubs, based in Phoenix, Arizona, founded by Karsten Solheim, who was an engineer at the General Electric company. In 1959, he started making his own putters in...
  
  , a brand of golf club
• Ping (short story)
  Ping (short story)
  "Ping" is a short story written by Samuel Beckett written in French in 1966, and later translated into English by the author and published in 1967. The story was originally written as a segment of The Lost Ones...
  
  , a short story by Samuel Beckett
• Ping, an insulin pump model from Animas Corporation
  Animas Corporation
  Animas Corporation is an American company that specializes in making insulin pumps, used by people with diabetes. The company was founded by Dr. Katherine Crothall in 1996, had its initial public offering in May 2004 under the ticker symbol 'PUMP', and was ultimately acquired by Johnson & Johnson...
  
  
• Ping (video gaming), slang for the network latency seen between a game player's computer and the game server (or another player)

See also

• Pinghua, a Chinese dialect
• Ping.fm
  Ping.fm
  Ping.fm is a free social networking and micro-blogging web service that enables users to post to multiple social networks simultaneously.Making an update on Ping.fm pushes the update to a number of different social websites at once...
  
  , a microblog social network
• Table tennis
  Table tennis
  Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
  
  , a racquet sport also known as "Ping Pong"
• Pong
  Pong
  Pong is one of the earliest arcade video games, and is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics. While other arcade video games such as Computer Space came before it, Pong was one of the first video games to reach mainstream popularity...
  
  , a video game simulating table tennis