Wow, WOW or WoW may refer to:

Games and toys

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World of Warcraft ''World of Warcraft'' (''WoW'') is a 2004 massively multiplayer online role-playing (MMORPG) video game developed and published by Blizzard Entertainment for Windows and Mac OS X. Set in the '' Warcraft'' fantasy universe, ''World of War ...

'', a massively multiplayer online role-playing game *''

World of Warplanes ''World of Warplanes'' (''WoWp'') is a free-to-play aerial combat Massively multiplayer online game, massively multiplayer online (MMO) game developed by Persha Studia and published by Wargaming (company), Wargaming.net. The game was originally rel ...

'', an online flight simulator *''

World of Warships ''World of Warships'' is a naval warfare-themed free-to-play multiplayer online game developed and published by Wargaming. Players control warships of choice and can battle other random players on the server, play cooperative battles against bo ...

'', an online naval simulator *''

Wizard of Wor ''Wizard of Wor'' is a 1981 maze video game developed by Dave Nutting Associates and published by Midway for arcades. The player controls a Worrior, who must defeat all the monsters inside enclosed mazes while being careful not to be destroye ...

'', a 1981 arcade game by Midway *

Sega Wow is a development department within Japanese video game company Sega Corporation that also previously existed as Wow Entertainment and AM1 spent most of its early existence under the leadership of Rikiya Nakagawa and developed a number of arca ...

, a video game company *

Worlds of Wonder (toy company) Worlds of Wonder (WoW) was an American toy company founded in 1985 by former Atari sales president Don Kingsborough, and former Atari employee Mark Robert Goldberg. Its founding was inspired by a prototype that became its launch product, Tedd ...

, a 1980s American toy company

Music

Wow (band) WOW! was a Dutch girl group in the late 1990s and early 2000s who were produced by the duo Bolland & Bolland. History WOW! scored their first hit in 1997 called ''Keer op Keer'', which came from their album ''Wild + Ondeugend''. The group scor ...

, a Dutch 1990s girl group * WOW Music, a Hong Kong record label *SRS Wow, and SRS Wow HD, an audio enhancement suite of

Sound Retrieval System Sound Retrieval System (SRS) is a patented psychoacoustic 3D audio processing technology originally invented by Arnold Klayman in the early 1980s. The SRS technology applies head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) to create an immersive 3D soundf ...

technologies *Wow, a member of the animated girl group

VBirds VBirds were a British virtual girl group, created in 2002 by a team of designers, producers and musicians. An animated television series of the same name, consisting of six one-minute episodes, aired on Cartoon Network between long-form progr ...

Albums

* ''WOW'' series, a series of compilation albums of contemporary Christian music * ''Wow!'' (Bananarama album), 1987 * ''Wow'' (Bibi Zhou album), 2007 * ''Wow!'' (Bill Doggett album), 1965 * ''WOW'' (Junko Onishi album), 1993 * ''Wow'' (Kate NV album), 2023 * ''WOW'' (Mouse on Mars album), a 2012 mini album by Mouse on Mars * ''Wow'' (Superbus album), 2006 * ''Wow'' (Verdena album), 2011 * ''WOW'' (Wendy O. Williams album), a 1984 album by Wendy O. Williams *'' Wow/Grape Jam'', a 1968 album by Moby Grape

Songs

* "Wow" (Kate Bush song), 1979 * "Wow" (Kylie Minogue song), 2008 * "Wow" (Ruslana song), 2011 * "Wow" (Inna song), 2012 * "Wow" (Beck song), 2016 * "Wow" (Marilyn Manson song), 2009 * "Wow" (Post Malone song), 2018 * "Wow" (Zara Larsson song), 2020 *

Wow (Zola song) "Wow" is a song by French rapper Zola released in 2020. Charts References {{Portal, music French songs 2020 singles 2020 songs ...

, 2020 *"Wow", a 2003 song by Snow Patrol from ''

Final Straw ''Final Straw'' is the third studio album and major-label debut by Northern Irish–Scottish alternative rock band Snow Patrol, released on 4 August 2003 in the United Kingdom and in 2004 in the United States. The album is notable for bringing ...

'' *"Wow", a 2017 song by Twice from ''

Twicetagram ''Twicetagram'' is the debut studio album by South Korean girl group Twice. It was released on October 30, 2017, by JYP Entertainment and distributed through Genie Music. The title ''Twicetagram'' refers to their official Instagram account of t ...

'' *"Wow", a 2024 song by Ive from ''

Ive Switch ''Ive Switch'' is the second Korean-language extended play and third overall by South Korean girl group Ive. It was released by Starship Entertainment on April 29, 2024, and contains six tracks including two lead singles " Heya" and "Accendio". ...

Organizations and companies

War on Want War on Want is an anti-poverty charity based in London. War on Want works to challenge the root causes of poverty, inequality and injustice through partnership with social movements in the global South and campaigns in the UK. War on Want's slo ...

, a British anti-poverty charity *

Warbirds Over Wanaka Warbirds over Wanaka is a biennial air show in Wānaka, held on the Easter weekend of even-numbered years since 1988. It is held at Wānaka Airport, 10 km south-east of Wānaka, in the southern South Island of New Zealand. Initially conceiv ...

, a biennial international airshow held in New Zealand *

Wide Open West WideOpenWest, Inc. (doing business as WOW!) is the eighth largest cable operator in the United States with their network passing 1.9 million homes and businesses. The company offers landline telephone, cable television, and broadband Internet s ...

, an American ISP, internet, cable, and phone company *

Wider Opportunities for Women Wider Opportunities for Women (WOW) is a national nonprofit organization in the United States established in 1962 by Jane Fleming and Mary Janney in Washington, D.C. History In its early days, WOW received much of its support from women in key g ...

, U.S. non-profit *

Women of the Wall Women of the Wall (Hebrew: נשות הכותל, ''Neshot HaKotel'') is a multi-denominational Jewish feminist organization based in Israel whose goal is to secure the rights of women to pray at the Western Wall, also called the Kotel, in a fashi ...

, a Jewish women's organization in Israel *

Women of the World Festival WOW – Women of the World Festival (WOW, WOW Festival) is a network of arts festivals that celebrate the achievements of women and girls as well as highlighting the obstacles that face them, and is part of a global feminist movement. The WOW F ...

, a festival based in London with global satellite venues *

Women of Wrestling Women of Wrestling (WOW) is an American women's professional wrestling professional wrestling promotion, promotion founded in 2000 by David McLane (who also founded Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW)). WOW is based in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, ...

, an American women's wrestling promotion *

Women on Waves Women on Waves (WoW) is a Dutch nongovernmental organization ( NGO) created in 1999 by Dutch physician Rebecca Gomperts, in order to bring reproductive health services, particularly non-surgical abortion services and education, to women in coun ...

, a Dutch pro-choice non-profit organization *

Women on Web A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or Adolescence, adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functi ...

, a Canadian pro-choice non-profit organization *

Woodmen of the World WoodmenLife (officially Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society) is a not-for-profit fraternal benefit society founded in 1890, based in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, that operates a large privately held insurance company for its members. ...

, a fraternal organization in Omaha, Nebraska, United States *

Woolworths Limited Woolworths Group Limited is an Australian multinational retail and finance company, primarily known for the operation of its retail chain Woolworths Supermarkets across Australia, Woolworths (previously known as Countdown) in New Zealand and ...

, an Australian retailing company, by Australian Stock Exchange code *

World of Wearable Art World of WearableArt (WOW) is an international design competition, attracting entries from more than 40 countries each year. The competition features wearable art entries, which are judged on durability, the safety and comfort of the models, a ...

, a museum and award show in New Zealand *

World of Wonder (company) World of Wonder Productions (WOW) is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in Television documentary, documentary television and Doc ...

, an American production company *

World Organization of Workers The World Organization of Workers (WOW) is an international trade union federation. History WOW was founded in September 1921, as the International Federation of Christian Employees' Trade Unions. After several name changes, it became the Worl ...

, an international trade union federation *

WOW! (online service) CompuServe, Inc. (CompuServe Information Service, Inc., also known by its initialism CIS or later CSi) was an American Internet company that provided the first major commercial online service. It opened in 1969 as a timesharing and remote access ...

, a defunct ISP from CompuServe *

WOW Promotions The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is an American mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion company based in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is owned and operated by TKO Group Holdings, a majority owned subsidiary of Endeavor Group Holdings. The large ...

, an American mixed martial arts organization * WOW Sight & Sound, an Australian electronics and music retailer

Places

* Wall of Wind, a wind engineering testing facility in Florida, United States *

WOW counties The WOW counties are three counties in the southeast of the U.S. state of Wisconsin: Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington. They are to the west, north, and northwest of Milwaukee, respectively, and are part of the Milwaukee metropolitan area. D ...

, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties of Wisconsin, United States * WOW (Wasatch over Wasatch) Trail, a trail along the course of Snake Creek in Utah, United States *

Wau, South Sudan Wau (; also known as Wow, Waw, or Wau Town) is a town, locally referred to as a city, in northwestern South Sudan on the western bank of Jur River. It is the capital of Western Bahr el Ghazal region in South Sudan. It lies approximately northw ...

(or Wow), a town in South Sudan

Television, radio and film

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World of Winx ''World of Winx'' is an Italian animated television series and a spin-off of ''Winx Club''. The series was created by Iginio Straffi. Twenty-six episodes were produced in two seasons, the first of which was premiered as a Netflix original serie ...

'' (also titled ''Winx Club WOW''), a spin-off of ''Winx Club'' *

WOW (channel) Pen Studios (formerly Popular Entertainment Network) is an Indian film production and distribution company established by Dr. Jayantilal Gada on 31 March 1987. Based in Mumbai, it mainly produces and distributes Hindi, Tamil and Telugu films. I ...

, an Indian television channel in Mumbai *

WOW (TV station) WOW is an Australian television station licensed to WIN Television, serving regional and remote Western Australia. The station officially commenced transmissions on 26 March 1999 as the second commercial regional broadcaster in Western Austral ...

, the local WIN Television station broadcasting to remote Western Australia *

KXSP KXSP (590 AM) is a commercial radio station licensed to Omaha, Nebraska. The station is owned by SummitMedia and it airs a sports format. Most weekday afternoon and evening programming is from local hosts, while during mornings, late nig ...

, formerly known as WOW, a radio station in Omaha, Nebraska *

WOWT WOWT (channel 6) is a television station in Omaha, Nebraska, United States, affiliated with NBC and owned by Gray Media. The station's studios are located at the Kiewit Plaza on Farnam Street near downtown Omaha, and its transmitter is locate ...

, formerly known as WOW-TV, a TV station in Omaha, Nebraska *'' WOW: The CatholicTV Challenge'', a television game show * ''WOW!'' (TV series), a 1996 UK CITV programme * ''Wow'' (film), a 1970 Québécois movie directed by Claude Jutra * ''wow'' (Barry), a 2023 TV episode

Transport

* WOW air, an Icelandic low-cost airline. *

WOW Alliance WOW Alliance was a cargo airline alliance consisting of up to four airlines. History The WOW Alliance has been established in 2000 by the SAS Cargo Group, Lufthansa Cargo and Singapore Airlines Cargo while JAL Cargo joined in July 2002. Lufth ...

, a global air-cargo alliance *

Air Southwest Air Southwest was a British airline founded by Sutton Harbour Holdings in 2003. Ownership was transferred to Eastern Airways in September 2010 but operations ceased 12 months later. It operated regional scheduled passenger services in South ...

, an airline based in the Southwest of England, by ICAO Airline Code *

Woolwich railway station Woolwich railway station is an Elizabeth line station in Woolwich in London, England which opened on 24 May 2022, and has up to 12 trains per hour to Canary Wharf and Central London. This station received almost 9 million passengers in the f ...

, London, England, by National Rail station code

Other

Way of working Disciplined agile delivery (DAD) is the software development portion of the Disciplined Agile Toolkit. DAD enables teams to make simplified process decisions around incremental and iterative solution delivery. DAD builds on the many practices es ...

or ways of working, a concept for software development in disciplined agile delivery within the project management framework Disciplined Agile Toolkit * Lay's WOW chips, a brand of fat-free potato chips * Wendy O. Williams (1949–1998), U.S. singer *

Windows on Windows In computing, Windows on Windows (commonly referred to as WOW) is a discontinued compatibility layer of 32-bit versions of the Windows NT family of operating systems. Since 1993, with the release of Windows NT 3.1, WoW extends NTVDM to provide ...

, an application compatibility layer in 32-bit Microsoft Windows **

WoW64 In computing on Microsoft platforms, WoW64 (Windows 32-bit on Windows 64-bit) is a subsystem of the Windows operating system capable of running 32-bit applications on 64-bit Windows. It is included in all 64-bit versions of Windows, except in Wi ...

, an application compatibility layer in 64-bit Microsoft Windows * ''Wow!'' (comic), a British comic from 1982–1983 *

Wow (recording) Wow is a relatively slow form of flutter (pitch variation) that can affect gramophone records and tape recorders. For both, the collective expression wow and flutter is commonly used. Gramophone records When playing gramophone records, wow i ...

, a pitch variation while playing a sound recording *

WOW Film Festival (disambiguation) WOW Film Festival may refer to one of these film festivals: *For Film's Sake, formerly World of Women’s Cinema (WOW) Film Festival, in Sydney, Australia *Wales One World Film Festival Wales One World Film Festival (), also known as WOW Film F ...

, several film festivals *

Wow! signal The Wow! signal was a strong narrowband radio signal detected on August 15, 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States, then used to support the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. The signal appeare ...

, a strong radio signal of unknown origin detected by a SETI project in 1977 *Whip em Out Wednesday, a radio promo on the '' Opie & Anthony Show''