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physics's most patient prank, turning gravity into a game of vertical chicken
means A pogo stick is a spring-loaded pole with footrests and a handle that you bounce on, hopping upright in place or across the ground.
from The name first appears as a trademark for the toy in the early 20th century. The popular tale claims it blends the names of its supposed German inventors, 'Po' and 'Go,' but that story is folk invention with no solid backing; the likelier reading is simply 'go' bolted onto a snappy front syllable, a marketing coinage built for the mouth. From the toy, 'pogo' leapt into a verb (to bounce up and down, especially the stiff-legged punk dance) and a metaphor for anything that springs straight back up.
- world record
- Over 88,000 consecutive jumps without stopping
- highest jump
- Extreme pogo sticks clear over 11 feet
- origin myth
- Named after inventors Pohlman and Gottschall, allegedly
- sport name
- Competitive pogo is called Xpogo
- patent age
- First patented in 1919, still bouncing
pogo the cat — walt kelly's cartoon character who appeared in the comic strip pogo from 1948-1975
pogo stick — spring-loaded toy invented by george hansburg in 1919 for bouncing locomotion