Ping From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Look up ping in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ping may refer to:
Technology
Technology
- Ping, a pulse of sound in active sonar
- Ping (networking utility), a computer network tool used to test whether a particular host is reachable across an IP network
- Echo Request message in Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP)
- iTunes Ping, a social network for music that was once built into Apple iTunes
- Ping (blogging), used for blogs, RSS, and related web services
- PING (software), used for disk cloning or backup
- Ping (surname), a Chinese surname
- Bing (Chinese surname), romanized Ping in Wade–Giles
- Ping (given name)
- Jean Ping (born 1942), Gabonese diplomat and Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union
- Nimrod Ping (1947–2006), politician in Brighton, England
- 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
- 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 Meaning of Life
- Mr. Ping, a character in the film Kung Fu Panda
- Professor Ping, a character in the film Barbarella
