Wing (disambiguation)
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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:
- Insect wing, outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly
- Bird flight, a bird's forelimbs
[edit] Places
- Wing, Buckinghamshire, a village in England
- Wing, Rutland, a village in England
- Port Wing (town), Wisconsin, a town in the United States
- Wing, North Dakota, a city in the United States
- Wing River Township, Minnesota, a township in the United States
[edit] People
- Wing (singer), a New Zealand singer originally from Hong Kong
- Craig Wing, a rugby league player for the Sydney Roosters
- Grace Barnett Wing, aka 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
- Wing Yee, a Canadian singer-songwriter
- Wings Hauser, an American actor
[edit] Literature
- Wings (novel), a novel by Mikhail Kuzmin
- Wings (manga magazine), a 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 comic book character published by DC Comics, sidekick of the Crimson Avenger
[edit] Entertainment
[edit] Television
- Wings (TV series), which ran on NBC from 1990 to 1997
- Wings (BBC TV series), which was a BBC drama which ran from 1976 to 1977
- Wings (Discovery Channel TV series), documentary programs about aircraft
- Wing (South Park), an episode of South Park featuring the singer Wing
- Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, an anime series, as well as several fictional weapons featured in it:
[edit] Music
- Wings (band), Paul McCartney's 1970s band
- Wings (album), a 2005 album by singer Bonnie Tyler
- Wings (Mark Chesnutt album), a 1995 album by Mark Chesnutt
- "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 by Josh Ritter from his 2003 album Hello Starling, also covered by Joan Baez on her Dark Chords on a Big Guitar album.
- Wing Records, a record label
[edit] Film
- Wings (film), a 1927 film about fighter pilots in World War I
- Wings (1966 film), a 1966 movie by Soviet filmmaker Larisa Shepitko
[edit] Games and sports
- Detroit Red Wings, an NHL hockey team based in Detroit
- Wings (board game), a 1981 wargame by Yaquinto Publications
- Wings (1996 computer game), a computer game with space ships
- Wings (1990 computer game), a World War I computer game by Cinemaware
- Winger (sport), a position in sports
- Kalamazoo Wings, a UHL ice hockey team based in Kalamazoo, Michigan
[edit] Computing
- WinG, a Windows interface in computing
- 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
[edit] Politics
The term Wing can be used in the context of Left-Right politics:
[edit] Scuba diving
- Wings, or Backplate and wing, a type of buoyancy compensation device (BCD) worn by scuba divers
[edit] Other
- Wings (haircut), a haircut style
- Wing (air force unit), a basic unit of an air force
- "Wings", a colloquial term for Aircrew Badges worn by military flyers and the Parachutist Badges worn by Paratroopers
- Wings Alliance, an airline alliance
- Wing Van or Wing Body, a body type of truck which side opens
- Buffalo wings, or chicken wings, a foodstuff
- WING, an AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio
- WING (Wrestling International New Generations), a former professional wrestling promotion in Japan
- Wing (lingerie), an underwear brand by Wacoal
- The Wings, an area of the stage not visible to the audience, see Stage (theatre)#Proscenium stage
- Wings (perfume), a scent by Giorgio Beverly Hills, now a subsidiary of Procter & Gamble
- Fender or wing, the panel on an automobile which surrounds the wheel
- WINGS, an international camp organized by Girlguiding Royal Berkshire and Berkshire Scouts
- T-Mobile Wing, a Pocket PC phone from T-Mobile
- Wings (tap dance), a tap dance move
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