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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:

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

  • 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

    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

    Entertainment

    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:

    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

    Film

  • Wings (film), a 1927 film about fighter pilots in World War I
  • Wings (1966 film), a 1966 movie by Soviet filmmaker Larisa Shepitko

    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

    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
  • wingS Framework, an open source web application framework based on Java Servlets

    Politics

    The term Wing can be used in the context of Left-Right politics:
  • Left-wing politics
  • Right-wing politics

    Scuba diving

  • Wings, or Backplate and wing, a type of buoyancy compensation device (BCD) worn by scuba divers

    Other

  • Wings (haircut), a haircut style
  • Wing (air force unit), a basic unit of an air force
  • "Wings", a colloquial term for Aircrew Badges 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    
       

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