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:
Polo
Polo is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team. Sometimes called, "The Sport of Kings", it was highly popularized by the British. Players score by driving a small white plastic or wooden ball into the opposing team's goal using a...
is a team sport played on horseback in which the objective is to score goals against an opposing team.
It may also refer to:
Sports
- Elephant poloElephant poloElephant polo is a variant of polo played whilst riding elephants. It is played in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Rajasthan , and Thailand. Equipment consists of a standard polo ball and six to nine foot cane sticks with a polo mallet head on the end. The pitch is three-quarters of the length of a standard...
- Water poloWater poloWater polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...
- Canoe poloCanoe poloCanoe Polo is a competitive ball sport played on water, in a defined "field", between two teams of 5 players, each in a kayak...
- Bicycle polo
- Segway poloSegway PoloSegway polo is a team sport which started to gain some measure of popularity after being played by members of the Bay Area Segway Enthusiasts Group in 2004. The Bay Area SEG was not the first to play polo on a Segway HT; a team sponsored by Mobile Entertainment played in the Hubert H...
Clothing
- Polo shirt, also known as a tennis shirt or golf shirt
- Polo neckPolo neckA polo neck or turtle neck or skivvy is a garment—usually a sweater—with a close-fitting, round, and high collar that folds over and covers the neck...
, a garment also known as a turtle neck - Polo Ralph LaurenPolo Ralph LaurenRalph Lauren Corporation is a luxury clothing and goods company of the American fashion designer Ralph Lauren. Ralph Lauren specializes in high-end casual/semi-formal wear for men and women, as well as accessories, fragrances, home and housewares...
, a clothing brand
Places
- Polo, IllinoisPolo, IllinoisPolo is a city in Ogle County, Illinois. The population was 2,355 at the 2010 census, down from 2,477 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Polo is located at ....
, United States - Polo, MissouriPolo, MissouriPolo is a city in Caldwell County, Missouri, United States. The population was 582 at the 2000 census. Polo was founded by Abraham Stith in 1832.-Geography:Polo is located at ....
, United States, a town northeast of Kansas City - Polo, Dominican RepublicPolo, Dominican RepublicPolo is a municipality of the Barahona Province in southwestern Dominican Republic, known for its green and high mountains and for growing fine coffee....
, a municipality of the Barahona province - The old name for Valenzuela CityValenzuela CityValenzuela ,In rare occasion it is pronunced as , with a glottal stop after /ɐ/ in Filipino/Tagalog languages. officially known as the City of Valenzuela is a highly urbanized, first-class city and one of cities in the Philippines that constitutes Metro Manila...
, Metro ManilaMetro ManilaMetropolitan Manila , the National Capital Region , or simply Metro Manila, is the metropolitan region encompassing the City of Manila and its surrounding areas in the Philippines...
, PhilippinesPhilippinesThe Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
Other
- Polo, a traditional musical style of Venezuela
- Polo, a novel by Jilly Cooper, making up part of the Rutshire ChroniclesRutshire ChroniclesThe Rutshire Chronicles is the name given to a series of romantic novels by Jilly Cooper. The stories tell tales of mainly British upper-class families, as well as the show-jumping and polo crowd, in numerous different sexually charged scenarios, often laced with adultery, illegitimate children,...
- Polo (flamenco palo)Polo (flamenco palo)Polo is the name of a flamenco palo or musical form. There is only one known song in this palo, which is extremely similar to another palo called caña, and its guitar accompaniment, like the caña, shares its rhythm and motifs with soleá. Both the caña and polo share the same musical mode. In fact,...
, a palo or musical form of flamenco - Polo (sweet), originally a pressed ring-shaped mint, the range later being extended to include ring-shaped non-mint sweets
- Operation PoloOperation PoloOperation Polo code name for The Hyderabad Police Action was a military operation in September 1948 in which the Indian Armed Forces engaged those of the State of Hyderabad and ended the rule of Nizam, annexing the state into the Indian Union....
, codename for the 1948 invasion of Hyderabad by India - Volkswagen PoloVolkswagen PoloThe Volkswagen Polo is a supermini car manufactured by Volkswagen. It is sold in Europe and other markets worldwide in hatchback, saloon, coupé and estate variants....
, a small car that has been built by German automaker Volkswagen in several different forms since 1975 - Polo wrapsPolo wrapsPolo wraps are bandage materials, usually made of fleece, for a horse's legs. They can be quite stretchy compared to other bandaging materials, and are used mainly for protection during ridden work, longeing, and turnout.-Uses of polo wraps:...
, used on a horse's legs - Polos, one of two independent parts of KotekanKotekanKotekan is a style of playing fast interlocking parts in most varieties of Balinese Gamelan music, including Gamelan gong kebyar, Gamelan angklung, Gamelan jegog and others. In kotekan there are two independent parts called polos and sangsih, each of which fills in the gaps of the other to form a...
, a style of playing fast Balinese Gamelan music - PilafPilafPilaf is a dish in which rice is cooked in a seasoned broth . In some cases, the rice may also attain its brown color by being stirred with bits of cooked onion, as well as a large mix of spices...
in Persian or Uyghur, a rice dish
As a surname
- Marco PoloMarco PoloMarco Polo was a Venetian merchant traveler from the Venetian Republic whose travels are recorded in Il Milione, a book which did much to introduce Europeans to Central Asia and China. He learned about trading whilst his father and uncle, Niccolò and Maffeo, travelled through Asia and apparently...
(1254–1324), Italian trader and explorer famous for his worldwide travels- Niccolò and Maffeo PoloNiccolò and Maffeo PoloNiccolò and Maffeo Polo were the father and uncle respectively of Marco Polo, the Venetian explorer. Before the birth of Marco, the two became merchants, and established trading posts in Constantinople, Sudak in the Crimea, and in a western part of the Mongol Empire...
, his father and uncle respectively
- Niccolò and Maffeo Polo
- Leonardo PoloLeonardo PoloLeonardo Polo has been a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Navarra since 1954, he has also taught in the University of Granada , the Catholic University of the Holy Cross , the University of La Sabana , the University of Piura and Panamerican University , together with IESE...
(born 1926), Spanish contemporary philosopher - Teri PoloTeri PoloTheresa Elizabeth "Teri" Polo is an American actress known for her role of Pam Focker in the movie Meet the Parents and its two sequels, Meet the Fockers and Little Fockers...
(born 1969), American actress - Johnny Polo, a former ring persona of American professional wrestler Scott Levy (born 1964), better known as Raven
- Carmen PoloCarmen PoloMaría del Carmen Polo y Martínez-Valdés, 1st Lady of Meirás, Grandee of Spain was the wife of Francisco Franco and a member of the Spanish nobility.-Family:...
, was the wife of Francisco FrancoFrancisco FrancoFrancisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...
and a member of the Spanish nobilitySpanish nobilitySpanish nobles are persons who possess the legal status of hereditary nobility according to the laws and traditions of the Spanish monarchy. A system of titles and honours of Spain and of the former kingdoms that constitute it comprise the Spanish nobility...
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