Wings Information
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:
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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
- 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's 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
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, the third in The Nome Trilogy of children's books by Terry Pratchett
- Wing, an island in Julie Bertgna's book 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
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
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
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