Sling may refer to:

Places

Sling, Anglesey Sling is an area in the Community (Wales), community of Llanddona, Anglesey, Wales, which is 130.4 miles (209.8 km) from Cardiff and 208.1 miles (334.8 km) from London. It was the location of Sling Chapel.https://coflein.gov.uk/en/site/ ...

, Wales * Sling, Gloucestershire, England, a small village in the Forest of Dean

People with the name

* Otto Šling (1912–1952), repressed Czech communist functionary

Arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Sling'' (album), a 2021 studio album by Clairo * Sling (''Transformers''), a fictional character *

Sling TV Sling TV is an American streaming television service operated by Sling TV LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Dish Network. Unveiled on January 5, 2015, at the Consumer Electronics Show, the virtual multichannel video programming distributor aim ...

, an American streaming television service operated by Dish Network

Clothing

* Baby sling, a piece of fabric tied to carry a child or infant * Sling swimsuit, a type of swimsuit, sometimes a bikini variant * Slingback, a type of woman's shoe

Devices and weapons

* Sling (cannon), an early modern gunpowder weapon * Sling (climbing), a loop of webbing that can be wrapped around rock or tied to other equipment *

Sling (firearms) In the context of firearms, a sling is a type of strap or harness designed to allow a shooter to conveniently carry a firearm (usually a long gun such as a rifle, carbine, shotgun, submachine gun or GPMG) on their body, and/or to aid in greater ...

, a type of strap or harness that allows convenient carrying of a long gun and/or bracing of the weapon for better stability during aiming * Sling (furniture), a suspended, free-swinging chair, bed, or hammock ** Sex swing, also known as a "sling" *

Sling (rigging) Rigging is both a noun, the equipment, and verb, the action of designing and installing the equipment, in the preparation to move objects. A team of ''riggers'' design and install the lifting or rolling equipment needed to raise, roll, slide or ...

, a component used in a rigging system for lifting, frequently made of wire rope or synthetic fiber *

Sling (weapon) A sling is a projectile weapon typically used to hand-throw a blunt projectile such as a stone, clay, or lead " sling-bullet". It is also known as the shepherd's sling or slingshot (in British English, although elsewhere it means something ...

, a device used to hurl projectiles **

Slingshot A slingshot or catapult is a small hand-powered projectile weapon. The classic form consists of a Y-shaped frame, with two tubes or strips made from either a natural rubber or synthetic elastic material. These are attached to the upper two ends ...

(esp in the United States), a small hand-powered projectile weapon *

Hawaiian sling The Hawaiian sling is a device used in spearfishing. The sling operates much like a bow and arrow does on land, but energy is stored in rubber tubing rather than a wooden or fiberglass bow. Description Mechanically, the device is simple: the onl ...

, a device used in spearfishing

Drinks

Sling (drink) A sling is a drink historically made with sugar, hot or cold water, nutmeg, and a spirit such as gin, whiskey, rum, or brandy. In its modern form, it is made with gin and, varyingly, of ingredients such as sweet vermouth, lemon juice, simple sy ...

, a mixed drink, originally American, composed of spirit and water, sweetened and flavoured ** Singapore Sling, a cocktail that was invented by Ngiam Tong Boon for the Raffles Hotel in Singapore

Medicine

Sling (implant) In surgery, a sling is an implant that is intended to provide additional support to a particular tissue. It usually consists of a synthetic mesh material in the shape of a narrow ribbon but sometimes a biomaterial (bovine or porcine) or the patient� ...

, in surgery *

Sling (medicine) A sling, also known as arm sling, is a device to limit movement of the shoulder or elbow while it heals. A sling can be created from a triangular bandage. References Orthopedics {{health-stub ...

, a device to limit movement of the shoulder or elbow while it heals

Technology

Apache Sling Apache Sling is an open source Web framework for the Java platform designed to create content-centric applications on top of a JSR-170-compliant (a.k.a. JCR) content repository such as Apache Jackrabbit. Apache Sling allows developers to deplo ...

, a Java web framework *

Sling Media Sling Media Inc. is an American technology company that develops placeshifting and Smart TV solutions for consumers, multiple-system operators and set top box manufacturers. The company is based in Foster City, California, and was a subsidiary of ...

, an American technology company that provides placeshifting and Smart TV technology **

Slingbox The Slingbox was a TV streaming media device made by Sling Media that encoded local video for transmission over the Internet to a remote device (sometimes called placeshifting). It allowed users to remotely view and control their cable televisio ...

, a television streaming media device