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, a census-designated place in Pacific County, Washington, U.S * Chinook (crater), on Mars * Chinook Pass, a pass through the Cascade Range in the Washington, U.S. * Chinook Peak, a summit in Mount Rainier National Park, Washington, U.S. * Chinook Scenic Byway, 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), a rare breed of sled dog * Chinook hops, a variety of hops * Chinook olives, 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 ...

, 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, a Polish paraglider * Birdman Chinook, a Canadian ultralight aircraft * Boeing CH-47 Chinook, an American helicopter, and variants * Hermanspann Chinook, an American research glider * Meadowcroft Chinook, an American homebuilt aircraft * Wings of Change Chinhook Bi, 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 oper ...

station in Calgary,

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, 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