Wing (disambiguation)

A wing is an appendage used for flight by an animal or an apparatus used to create lift in aeronautics.

Wing or wings may also refer to:

Military terms

*Wing (air force unit)
*"Wings", a colloquial term for the Aircrew Badge (US) or Aircrew brevet (UK) worn by military fliers and the Parachutist Badge worn by paratroopers

Places

*Wing, Buckinghamshire, a village in England
*Wing, Rutland, a village in England
*Port Wing (town), Wisconsin, a town (civil township) in the United States
*Wing, North Dakota, a city in the United States
*Wing River Township, Minnesota, a township in the United States

People

*Craig Wing, a rugby league player for the Sydney Roosters
*Grace Barnett Wing, birthname of Grace Slick, American lead singer of Jefferson Airplane, Jefferson Starship, and Starship
*Lorna Wing, a researcher of Asperger's Syndrome
*Toby Wing, an American actress
*William Ricketson Wing and Joseph Wing, owners of J. & W. R. Wing Company, a whaling company
*Wing (singer), a New Zealand singer originally from Hong Kong
*Wings Hauser, an American actor

Entertainment

Fiction

*"Wings" (novel), by Mikhail Kuzmin
*"Wings" (manga magazine)
*"Wings" (play), a 1978 Arthur Kopit play
*"Wings", the third in The Bromeliad trilogy of children's books by Terry Pratchett
*Wing (comics), a DC Comics character
*Wing (Marvel Comics), a minor Astonishing X-Men character

Television

*"Wings" (TV series), which ran on NBC from 1990 to 1997
*"Wings" (BBC TV series), a BBC drama which ran from 1976 to 1977
*"Wings" (Discovery Channel TV series), documentary show about aircraft
*"Wing" (South Park), an episode of "South Park" featuring the singer Wing

Music

*Wings (band), Paul McCartney's 1970s band
*"Wings" (Mark Chesnutt album), a 1995 album
*"Wings" (Bonnie Tyler album), a 2005 album by singer Bonnie Tyler
*"Wing", a song from Patti Smith's 1996 album "Gone Again"
*"WINGS", a song by Utada Hikaru from her 2006 album "Ultra Blue"
*"Wings", a song by Hawkwind from their 1990 album "Space Bandits"
*"Wings", a song from Josh Ritter's 2003 album "Hello Starling"
*Wing Records, a record label

Film

*"Wings" (film), a 1927 film about World War I fighter pilots
*"Wings" (1966 film), by Soviet filmmaker Larisa Shepitko

Sports

*Detroit Red Wings, an NHL hockey team
*Philadelphia Wings, an NLL lacrosse team
*Kalamazoo Wings, a UHL hockey team based in Kalamazoo, Michigan
*Winger (sport), a position in several sports

Games

*Wings (1996 video game), a computer game with space ships
*Wings (series), several World War I computer flying games by Cinemaware
*Wings (board game), a 1981 wargame by Yaquinto Publications

Computing

*WinG, a Windows interface in computing
*Wing IDE, an integrated development environment for Python
*Wings 3D, an open source computer graphics modeling program
*WINGs, a Widget toolkit used by Window Maker
*WINGs Display Manager, an X display manager
*wingS Framework, an open source web application framework based on Java Servlets

Politics

*Left-wing politics
*Right-wing politics

Other

*Buffalo wings, a popular snack
*T-Mobile Wing, a Pocket PC telephone
*Wings, or Backplate and wing, a type of buoyancy compensation device worn by scuba divers
*Wings (haircut), a haircut style
*Wings Alliance, a proposed airline alliance
*Wing (architecture), a portion of a building, such as a prison, hospital or museum
*fender (automobile) or wing, the automobile panel which surrounds the wheel
*wing (automobile window), a triangular door window on older passenger automobiles in the space where the front door frame is angled to meet the slope of the windshield, mounted to be separately adjustable from the main, rectangular door window and generally to rotate on a vertical axis
*Wing Van or Wing Body, a body type of truck which side opens
*WING, an AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio
*the wings, an area of a theatre stage hidden from the audience
*WINGS, an international camp organized by Girlguiding Royal Berkshire and Berkshire Scouts
*Wings (perfume), a scent by Giorgio Beverly Hills, a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble
*W*ING (Wrestling International New Generations), a former professional wrestling promotion in Japan
*Wings (tap dance), a dance move