Bolo may be:

• Bolo Shell, a type of specialty shotgun shell
• Bolo (self-aware tank), a type of enhanced artificially intelligent tank appearing in the science fiction of Keith Laumer. The word was vaguely taken from the US Army use.
• Bolo (computer game), a computer game in which players battle each other with tanks.
• B-18 Bolo, a United States Army Air Corps bomber aircraft from the 1930s.
• Bolo knife, a machete used for agricultural purposes and as a weapon.
• Bolo punch, a wide sweeping uppercut used in boxing.
• Bolo tie, a decorative string with an ornament clasp worn around the neck, worn in the American West.
• Bolo Yeung, Chinese actor and martial artist
• Bolo, a village in Tibet

Bolo may also be:

• Bolo, a kind of Portuguese sweet bread .
• Bolo, a slur in the US Army from the early twentieth century for recruits who could not attain an adequate degree of marksmanship. It comes from the idea that they should grab a bolo and attack hand-to-hand.
• Bolo, a slang term for Bolsheviks during the Russian Civil War, as they were not trained in professional armies and yet quite violent.
• BOLO, an acronym used by law enforcement for "Be On The Lookout".

See also:

• Bolas, a throwing rope with weights at both ends to entangle prey.