Chinook

Chinook may refer to:

Languages

• Chinookan peoples, several groups of Indigenous people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest
• Chinookan languages, a small family of languages spoken by Chinook peoples
  • Lower Chinook
  • Upper Chinook language
  • Chinook Jargon, a nearly extinct American indigenous language
• Billy Chinook (born c. 1827), a chief and member of the Wasco tribe

Places

• Chinook, Alberta, a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada
  • Chinook (provincial electoral district)
• Chinook, Montana, a city in Blaine County, Montana, U.S.
• Chinook, Washington, a census-designated place in Pacific County, Washington, U.S
• Chinook (crater), on Mars
• Chinook Pass, a pass through the Cascade Range in the Washington, U.S.
• Chinook Peak, a summit in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, U.S.
• Chinook Scenic Byway, part of State Route 410 in Washington, U.S.
• Chinook oilfield, a former name of Peregrino oilfield, Brazil

Science

• Chinook cherry, a cherry cross-breed
• Chinook (dog), a rare breed of sled dog
• Chinook hops, a variety of hops
• Chinook olives, a dish of acorns cured with urine
• Chinook salmon, a species of fish
• Avro Canada Chinook, Canada's first turbojet engine

Transportation

Aircraft

• Air-Sport Chinook, a Polish paraglider
• Birdman Chinook, a Canadian ultralight aircraft
• Boeing CH-47 Chinook, an American helicopter, and variants
• Hermanspann Chinook, an American research glider
• Meadowcroft Chinook, an American homebuilt aircraft
• Wings of Change Chinhook Bi, an Austrian paraglider design

Ships

• MV Chinook, an American passenger-only fast ferry
• USS Chinook, the name of two U.S. Navy ships

Public Transit

• Chinook station, a CTrain station in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Other uses

• Chinook (computer program), a computer program that plays draughts (checkers)
• Chinook (newspaper), an underground newspaper in Denver, Colorado, U.S., 1969–1972
• Chinook Sciences, a company specialising in waste to energy and metal recovery
• Chinook wind, föhn winds in the interior West of North America
• Chinook Wines, an American winery
• Chinook, a Ty, Inc. Beanie Baby toy exclusive to Canada
• The Chinook, an early 20th Century Canadian newspaper published by George Matheson Murray
• Lakeshore Chinooks, a Wisconsin baseball team

See also

• All pages with titles containing Chinook
• Chinook Park, Calgary, a neighborhood in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• CF Chinook Centre, a shopping mall in Calgary, Alberta, Canada
• List of Chinook jargon placenames
• Chrysotoxum chinook, a species of syrphid fly