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
• Botany

Military terms

• Wing (air force unit)
• "Wings" is a colloquial term for pilot's "wings" and aircrew badges (US) or aircrew brevets (UK) worn by military fliers (pilots) and crew members; and for technical badges, such as 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 and related acts
• Joseph Wing and William Ricketson Wing, owners of J. & W. R. Wing Company, a whaling company
• Lorna Wing, a researcher of Asperger's Syndrome
• Toby Wing, an American actress
• Wing, a New Zealand singer originally from Hong Kong
• Wings Hauser, an American actor
• Donald Goddard Wing, Yale Librarian

Entertainment

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

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

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" (song), the debut single by Tim Buckley, from Tim Buckley

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

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 proposed airline alliance
• Fender (automobile) 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