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:

Biology

• Insect wing
• Bat wing
• Bird wing
• Wing, any of several botanical meanings

Military terms

• Wing (air force unit)
• "Wings", a colloquial term for United States Aviator Badge
• "Wings", a colloquial term for aircrew badges (US)
• "Wings", a colloquial term for aircrew brevets (UK) worn by military fliers (pilots) and crew members
• "Wings", a colloquial term for technical badges such as the Parachutist Badge worn by paratroopers

Places

• Wing, Buckinghamshire, a village in England
• Wing, Rutland, a village in England
• Wing, North Dakota, a city in the United States

People

• Anna Wing (born 1914), English actress
• Brad Wing (born 1991), Australian player of American football
• Craig Wing (born 1979), a rugby league player for the Sydney Roosters
• Joseph Wing (1810–?) and William Ricketson Wing (1830–1908), owners of J. & W. R. Wing Company, a whaling company
• Lorna Wing (born 1928), a researcher of Asperger syndrome
• Toby Wing (1915–2001), an American actress
• Wing (singer), a New Zealand singer originally from Hong Kong
• Wings Hauser (born 1947), an American actor
• Donald Goddard Wing (1904–1972), Yale Librarian

Entertainment and Fiction

Characters

• Wing (DC Comics), a DC Comics character
• Wing (Marvel Comics), a minor Astonishing X-Men character
• Wing (Transformers), a character from the Transformers universe

Works

• Wings (Kuzmin novel), a novel by Mikhail Kuzmin
• Wings (Pike novel), a young-adult faerie novel by Aprilynne Pike
• Wings (play), a 1978 Arthur Kopit play
• Wings (magazine), a Japanese shōjo manga magazine
• Wings (Terry Pratchett novel), the third in The Nome Trilogy of children's books by Terry Pratchett
• Wing, an island in Julie Bertgna's 2002 novel Exodus

Television

• "Wing" (South Park), an episode of South Park featuring the singer Wing
• Wings (NBC TV series), a sitcom 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
• "Wings", an episode of "The Protector"

Music

• Wings (band), Paul McCartney's 1970s band
• Wings (1968 band), an American folk rock band
• Wings (Mark Chesnutt album), a 1995 album
• Wings (Bonnie Tyler album), a 2005 album by singer Bonnie Tyler
• Wing Records, a record label
• "Wings" (Ringo Starr song), song by Ringo Starr from Ringo 2012
• "Wings", a song from Tim Buckley's eponymous debut album

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 ice hockey team
• Philadelphia Wings, an NLL lacrosse team
• Kalamazoo Wings, an ice hockey team based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
• Winger (sport), a position in several sports
• Wing (basketball), a combination shooting guard and small forward, also known as a "swingman"

Games

• Wings (1996 video game), a computer game with space ships
• Wings (series), several World War I computer flying games by Cinemaware

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

Other

• airfoil or aerofoil (British English), shape of a wing or blade (of a propeller, rotor or turbine) or sail as seen in cross-section
• T-Mobile Wing, a Pocket PC telephone
• Short title catalogue of books printed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and British America, and of English books printed in other countries, 1641-1700 by Donald Wing
• Wings, or Backplate and wing, a type of buoyancy compensation device worn by scuba divers
• Wings (haircut), a haircut style
• Wings Alliance, a former propose airline alliance
• Fender (vehicle) or wing, the automobile panel which surrounds the wheel
• WING, an AM radio station in Dayton, Ohio, USA
• The wings, an area of a theatre stage, hidden from the audience
• WINGS, an international camp organized by Girlguiding Royal Berkshire and Berkshire Scouts
• Buffalo wings, a spicy preparation of fried chicken wings