Polo (disambiguation)

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Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team.

It may also refer to:

Places

In the United States

• Polo Township, Carroll County, Arkansas
• Polo, Illinois, United States, a city
• Polo, Missouri, United States, a city northeast of Kansas City
• Polo, Ohio, an unincorporated community

Elsewhere

• Polo, Dominican Republic, a municipality
• Valenzuela, Philippines, a city in the region of Metro Manila formerly known as Polo
  • Polo, Valenzuela, a barangay

People

• Polo (surname)
• Polo (given name)
• Marco Polo (1254–1324), Venetian merchant traveller
• Polo Barnes (1901–1981), American jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
• Polo Montañez (1955–2002), Cuban singer and songwriter born Fernando Borrego Linares
• Polo Ravales (born 1982), Filipino actor and model
• Mohammed Ahmed (Polo), Ghanaian former footballer sometimes nicknamed "Polo"
• Marco Polo (producer), Canadian hip hop producer born Marco Bruno
• Prins Póló, Icelandic singer songwriter and experimental artist Svavar Pétur Eysteinsson
• Johnny Polo, a former ring persona of American professional wrestler Scott Levy, also known as Raven

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Polo (flamenco palo), a palo or musical form of flamenco
• Polo (music), a traditional musical style of Venezuela
• Polo, a novel by Jilly Cooper, part of the Rutshire Chronicles
• Polo TV, a Polish TV station launched in 2011

Brands and enterprises

• Polo (confectionery), a line of ring-shaped sweets, originally mint, now made in a variety of flavours
• ADOX Polo, a viewfinder camera manufactured between 1960 and 1963
• Volkswagen Polo, a small car manufactured since 1975

Clothing

• Polo neck, a garment also known as a turtle neck
• Polo Ralph Lauren, a clothing brand
• Polo shirt, also known as a tennis shirt or golf shirt

Sports

• Beach polo
• Canoe polo or Kayak polo
• Cowboy polo
• Cycle polo
• Elephant polo
• Segway polo
• Water polo
• Yak polo

Other uses

• Polo (TransMilenio), a mass transit station in Bogotá, Colombia
• Hurricane Polo (disambiguation), several hurricanes
• Operation Polo, codename for the 1948 invasion of Hyderabad by India
• Polo wraps, used on a horse's legs

See also

• Pilaf, a rice dish also known as polou, polou, or polow
• Polos, a type of crown
• Polos, one of two independent parts of Kotekan, a style of playing fast Balinese Gamelan music
• San Polo (disambiguation)