Loon (disambiguation)

This term should not be confused with lune.

Loon can refer to:

• Loon, also called diver, a genus of aquatic bird
• Great Northern Loon, or Common Loon, or Great Northern Diver, an aquatic bird of that genus
• Red-throated Loon, or Red-throated Diver, another aquatic bird of that genus

Places

• Loon-Plage, a town in the Nord département in France
• Borgloon, a town in Limburg, Belgium
• County of Loon (French name: Looz), a former county in present Belgium
• Loon, Iran, a village in Lorestan Province
• Loon, Drenthe, a village in the northeastern Netherlands
• Loon, North Brabant, a town in the southern Netherlands
• Loon op Zand, a town in North Brabant, Netherlands
• Loon, Bohol, a municipality in the Philippines
• Loon Mountain, a ski resort in New Hampshire, United States

Other uses

• The Great Lakes Loons, a minor league baseball team in Midland, Michigan
• Loon, a slang word for lunatic
• Loon, anglicised spelling of the Scots language Doric dialect word loun meaning 'boy', often used with the term quine or quinie (quean) meaning "girl"
• Loon, at Oxford University, one who leads a politically active life in the Oxford Union, used particularly with negative connotations to imply an obsession with their electoral and social success
• Loon pants (bell-bottoms), a type of trouser with flared legs
• Loon (rapper)
• The Loons, the nickname for Forfar Athletic F.C., a Scottish football team
• Loons: The Fight for Fame, a video game featuring classic Looney Tunes characters
• The Loon, a 2005 album by the band Tapes N Tapes
• "Loonie", a name for the Canadian 1 dollar coin featuring a loon
• JB-2 Loon, a name for the US Navy's adaptation of the German V-1 cruise missile, or "buzz bomb"