Chinook may refer to:

Languages

Chinookan peoples Chinookan peoples include several groups of Indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest in the United States who speak the Chinookan languages. Since at least 4000 BCE Chinookan peoples have resided along the Lower and Middle Columbia River (Wi ...

, several groups of Indigenous people of the U.S. Pacific Northwest *

Chinookan languages The Chinookan languages were a small family of languages spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples. Although the last known native speaker of any Chinookan language died in 2012, the 2009-2013 American Community ...

, a small family of languages spoken by Chinook peoples **

Lower Chinook Lower Chinook is a Chinookan language spoken at the mouth of the Columbia River on the west coast of North America. Dialects * Clatsop (Tlatsop) was spoken in northwestern Oregon around the mouth of the Columbia River and the Clatsop Plains ...

Upper Chinook language Upper Chinook, endonym Kiksht, also known as Columbia Chinook, and Wasco-Wishram after its last surviving dialect, is a recently extinct language of the US Pacific Northwest. It had 69 speakers in 1990, of whom 7 were monolingual: five Wasco and ...

** Chinook Jargon, a nearly extinct American indigenous language *

Billy Chinook Billy Chinook was a chief and member of the Wasco-Wishram, Wasco tribe. Chinook was a guide for John C. Frémont and Kit Carson, who explored Central Oregon from 1843 to 1844 and from 1845 to 1847. Chinook also served as First sergeant, First Ser ...

(born c. 1827), a chief and member of the Wasco tribe

Places

Chinook, Alberta Chinook is a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada within Special Area No. 3. It is located on Highway 9 approximately northeast of Brooks. Chinook was named after a "warm dry westerly wind from the Rocky Mountains.babel.hathitrust.org https:// ...

, a hamlet in southern Alberta, Canada **

Chinook (provincial electoral district) Chinook was a provincial electoral district in Alberta mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using the first past the post method of voting from 1979 to 1996. History The electoral district was created follo ...

Chinook, Montana Chinook is a city in and the county seat of Blaine County, Montana, United States. The population was 1,185 at the 2020 census. Points of interest are the Bear Paw Battlefield Museum located in the small town's center and the Bear Paw Battlefi ...

, a city in Blaine County, Montana, U.S. *

Chinook, Washington Chinook is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pacific County, Washington, United States. The population was 457 at the 2000 census and increased to 466 at the 2010 census. History Chinook was the site of the first court in Pacific County in 185 ...

, a census-designated place in Pacific County, Washington, U.S * Chinook (crater), on Mars *

Chinook Pass Chinook Pass (elevation 5430 ft./1656 m.) is a pass through the Cascade Range in the state of Washington. The pass is located on the crest of the Cascade Range, along a ridge between Yakima Peak to the northwest of the pass, and Naches Pea ...

, a pass through the Cascade Range in the Washington, U.S. *

Chinook Peak Chinook Peak is a summit located on the eastern border of Mount Rainier National Park. It is also on the shared border of Pierce County, Washington, Pierce County and Yakima County, Washington, Yakima County in Washington (U.S. state), Washingto ...

, a summit in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, U.S. *

Chinook Scenic Byway State Route 410 (SR 410, partially named the Chinook Scenic Byway, and also named the Stephen Mather Memorial Parkway) is a long state highway that traverses Pierce, King, and Yakima counties in the US state of Washington. It begin ...

, part of State Route 410 in Washington, U.S. * Chinook oilfield, a former name of Peregrino oilfield, Brazil

Science

* Chinook cherry, a cherry cross-breed *

Chinook (dog) The Chinook is a breed of sled dog, developed in the state of New Hampshire during the early 20th century. The Chinook is New Hampshire's official state dog. Description Appearance Standing in height at the withers and weighing , the Chinook ...

, a rare breed of sled dog *

Chinook hops This is a list of varieties of hop (''Humulus lupulus''). As there are male and female plants, the flowers (cones) of the female plant are fertilized by the pollen of the male flowers with the result that the female flowers form seeds. These see ...

, a variety of hops *

Chinook olives The aboriginal people of the Columbia river valley used urine to cure acorns. The settlers of European origin in that region gave the dish the name Chinook Olives. About 35 litres of acorns were placed in a hole near the entrance of a house. The ...

, a dish of acorns cured with urine *

Chinook salmon The Chinook salmon (''Oncorhynchus tshawytscha'') is the largest and most valuable species of Pacific salmon in North America, as well as the largest in the genus ''Oncorhynchus''. Its common name is derived from the Chinookan peoples. Other ve ...

, a species of fish *

Avro Canada Chinook The Avro Canada TR.4 Chinook was Canada's first turbojet engine, designed by Turbo Research and manufactured by A.V. Roe Canada Ltd. Named for the warm Chinook wind that blows in the Rocky Mountains, only three Chinooks were built and none we ...

, Canada's first turbojet engine

Transportation

Aircraft

Air-Sport Chinook The Air-Sport Chinook is a Polish single-place paraglider that was designed and produced by Air-Sport of Zakopane. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directory of Leisure Aviation 2003-04'', page 11. Pagefa ...

, a Polish paraglider *

Birdman Chinook The Birdman Chinook is a family of single and two-place, pusher configuration, high-wing ultralight aircraft that was first flown on 12 December 1982 and produced by Birdman Enterprises of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada starting in 1983.Jone ...

, a Canadian ultralight aircraft *

Boeing CH-47 Chinook The Boeing CH-47 Chinook is a tandem rotor helicopter developed by American rotorcraft company Vertol and manufactured by Boeing Vertol. The Chinook is a heavy-lift helicopter that is among the heaviest lifting Western helicopters. Its name, Ch ...

, an American helicopter, and variants *

Hermanspann Chinook The Hermanspann Chinook is an American mid-wing, two-seat, experimental research glider that was designed and constructed by Fred Hermanspann and Art Penz. Design and development The Chinook and its improved variant, the Chinook S, have been ...

, an American research glider *

Meadowcroft Chinook The Meadowcroft Chinook is a two-seat mid-winged American homebuilt aircraft design first flown in 1958. Development The Chinook was designed for maximum stability on the ground and the air with a roomy cockpit. Design The wing was patterned fr ...

, an American homebuilt aircraft *

Wings of Change Chinhook Bi The Wings of Change Chinhook Bi ( en, Chinook, italic=yes) is an Austrian two-place paraglider that was designed by Markus Gründhammer and produced by Wings of Change of Fulpmes. It is now out of production.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: '' ...

, an Austrian paraglider design

Ships

* MV ''Chinook'', an American passenger-only fast ferry * USS ''Chinook'', the name of two U.S. Navy ships

Public Transit

Chinook station Chinook station is a CTrain light rail station in Manchester, Calgary, Alberta. The station opened on May 25, 1981, as part of the original South line on the Red Line. The station is located on the exclusive LRT right of way (adjacent to CPR R ...

, a

CTrain CTrain (previously branded C-Train) is a light rail rapid transit system in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Most of the network functions as a light metro, though in the free-fare zone that runs through the downtown core the Red and Blue lines opera ...

station in

Calgary Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...

Alberta Alberta ( ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is part of Western Canada and is one of the three prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to the west, Saskatchewan to the east, the Northwest Ter ...

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

Other uses

* Chinook (computer program), a computer program that plays draughts (checkers) * ''Chinook'' (newspaper), an underground newspaper in Denver, Colorado, U.S., 1969–1972 *

Chinook Sciences Chinook Sciences is a US and UK based technology company that specializes in waste to energy and metal recovery. Patents Chinook Sciences holds many patents for its non-incineration "ultra clean synthetic gas" technology. Which is specifically ...

, a company specialising in waste to energy and metal recovery *

Chinook wind Chinook winds, or simply Chinooks, are two types of prevailing warm, generally westerly winds in western North America: Coastal Chinooks and interior Chinooks. The coastal Chinooks are persistent seasonal, wet, southwesterly winds blowing in from ...

, föhn winds in the interior West of North America *

Chinook Wines Chinook is a Washington winery located in the Yakima Valley AVA. Founded in 1983 by the wife and husband team of Kay Simon and Clay Mackey, Chinook was one of the pioneering wineries that established Prosser, Washington as a major wine-producing re ...

, an American winery *Chinook, a Ty, Inc. Beanie Baby toy exclusive to Canada *''The Chinook'', an early 20th Century Canadian newspaper published by

George Matheson Murray George Matheson Murray (July 27, 1889 – August 19, 1961), known publicly as George Murray, was a publisher and politician in British Columbia in the first half of the 20th century. He played a role in the founding of the Boy Scouts of Cana ...

Lakeshore Chinooks The Lakeshore Chinooks are a baseball team based in Mequon, Wisconsin, United States and a member of the Northwoods League, a collegiate summer baseball league. The Chinooks play their home games at Kapco Park on the campus of Concordia Universit ...

, a Wisconsin baseball team