WING (DISAMBIGUATION)

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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:

★ Insect wing, outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly

★ Bird flight, a bird's forelimbs

Contents

Places

People

Literature

Entertainment

Television

Music

Film

Games and sports

Computing

Politics

Other

Places

★ Wing, Buckinghamshire, a village in England

★ Wing, Rutland, a village in England

★ Port Wing (town), Wisconsin, a town 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

★ Lorna Wing, a researcher of Asperger's Syndrome

★ Wing Yee, a Canadian singer-songwriter

★ Wings Hauser

★ Toby Wing, an American actress

Literature

★ ''Wings'' (novel), a novel by Mikhail Kuzmin

★ Wing (comics), a comic book character published by DC Comics, sidekick of the Crimson Avenger

★ ''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

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:

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★ Wing Gundam

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★ Wing Gundam Zero

Music

★ Wings (band), Paul McCartney's 1970s band

★ ''Wings'' (album), a 2005 album by singer Bonnie Tyler

★ "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

★ 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

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

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

★ 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