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 "The Ping", a phenomenon present in the Fury and Hecla Strait See also Pinge (surname) Pinger (disambiguation) PNG (disambiguation) Bing (disambiguation) Ding (disambiguation)