Wing (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Places 2 People 3 Literature 4 Entertainment 4.1 Television 4.2 Music 4.3 Film 4.4 Games and sports 5 Computing 6 Politics 7 Scuba diving 8 Other

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 (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

[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
• William Ricketson Wing and Joseph Wing, owners of the J. & W. R. Wing whaling company of New Bedford, MA.
• 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
• Wing (Marvel Comics), a minor character from the third volume of Astonishing X-Men

[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:
  • Wing Gundam
  • Wing Gundam Zero

[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
• "Wing", a song by Patti Smith from her 1996 album Gone Again
• "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
• Philadelphia Wings, an NLL lacrosse team based in Philadelphia
• Kalamazoo Wings, a UHL ice hockey team based in Kalamazoo, Michigan

[edit] Computing

• WinG, a Windows interface in computing
• Wing IDE, an integrated development environment for Python
• 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:

• Left-wing politics
• Right-wing 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 (US usage) or Aircrew brevets (British usage) 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