Wow or WoW may refer to:

Games and toys

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World of Warcraft ''World of Warcraft'' (''WoW'') is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2004 by Blizzard Entertainment. Set in the ''Warcraft'' fantasy universe, ''World of Warcraft'' takes place within the world of Azeroth ...

'', a massively multiplayer online role-playing game *'' World of Warplanes'', an online flight simulator *''

World of Warships ''World of Warships'' is a free-to-play naval warfare-themed multiplayer online game, developed. produced and published by Wargaming. Players can battle others at random or play cooperative battle types against bots or an advanced player versus e ...

'', an online naval simulator *''

Wizard of Wor ''Wizard of Wor'' is an arcade game released in 1980 by Midway. Up to two players fight together in a series of monster-infested mazes, clearing each maze by shooting the creatures. The game was ported to the Atari 8-bit family, Commodore 64, At ...

'', a 1981 arcade game by Midway *

Sega Wow is a development department within Japanese video game developer Sega 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 arcade gam ...

, 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, Teddy ...

, a 1980s American toy company

Music

* Wow (band), 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 technologies *Wow, a member of the animated girl group VBirds

Albums

* ''WOW'' (Wendy O. Williams album), a 1984 album by Wendy O. Williams * ''Wow!'' (Bananarama album), 1987 * ''Wow!'' (Bill Doggett album), 1965 *''

Wow/Grape Jam ''Wow/Grape Jam'' is the second album by the rock band Moby Grape. It was first released in April 1968. It is different from most double album releases in that it was released as two different albums in separate covers, but packaged together a ...

'', a 1968 album by Moby Grape * ''WOW'' (Junko Onishi album), 1993 * ''WOW'' (Mouse on Mars album), a 2012 mini album by Mouse on Mars * ''Wow'' (Superbus album), 2006 * ''Wow'' (Bibi Zhou album), 2007 * ''Wow'' (Verdena album), 2011 * ''WOW'' series, a series of compilation albums of contemporary Christian music

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", a 2003 song by Snow Patrol from ''

Final Straw ''Final Straw'' is the third studio album and major-label debut by Scottish-Northern Irish rock band Snow Patrol, released on 4 August 2003 in the United Kingdom and Ireland and in 2004 in the United States. The album is notable for bringing t ...

Organizations and companies

* War on Want, 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 conceive ...

, a biennial international airshow held in New Zealand *

Wide Open West WideOpenWest (doing business as WOW!) is the sixth largest cable operator in the United States with their network passing 3,248,600 homes and businesses. The company offers landline telephone, cable television, and broadband Internet services. ...

, an American ISP, internet, cable, and phone company * Wider Opportunities for Women, 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 Women of the World Festival (WOW, WOW Festival) is an annual arts and science festival based in London, that celebrates the achievements of women and girls, as well as looking at the obstacles they face across the world. As a global feminist mov ...

, a festival based in London with global satellite venues *

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

, an American women's wrestling promotion * Women on Waves, a Dutch pro-choice non-profit organization *

Women on Web Women on Web (WoW) is a Canadian non-profit organization that aims to increase access to safe abortion known for its online abortion service accessible in multiple countries. The organization was founded by Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, a Dutch physici ...

, 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 trans-Tasman retailer headquartered in Bella Vista, Sydney, with extensive operations throughout Australia and New Zealand. It is the largest company in Australia by revenue and the second-largest in N ...

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

World of Wearable Art World of WearableArt (WOW) is an internationally recognised 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 ...

, a museum and award show in New Zealand *

World of Wonder (company) World of Wonder Productions is an American production company founded in 1991 by filmmakers Randy Barbato and Portsmouth-born Fenton Bailey. Based in Los Angeles, California, the company specializes in documentary television and film productio ...

, an American production company * World Organization of Workers, an international trade union federation *

WOW! (online service) CompuServe (CompuServe Information Service, also known by its initialism CIS) was an American online service provider, the first major commercial one in the world – described in 1994 as "the oldest of the Big Three information services (the oth ...

, a defunct ISP from CompuServe * WOW Promotions, an American mixed martial arts organization *

WOW Sight & Sound WOW Sight and Sound was an Australian audio visual retailer. Founded in 2003 with a single store in Townsville, it grew to 15 stores in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, the Northern Territory, and the Australian Capi ...

, an Australian electronics and music retailer

Places

WOW counties WOW counties is a common media term in southeastern Wisconsin in the United States which refers to the initials of Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties. They lie to the west, north, and northwest of Milwaukee, respectively, and are part of ...

, Waukesha, Ozaukee, and Washington counties of Wisconsin * Wau, South Sudan (or Wow), a town in South Sudan

Television, radio and film

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World of Winx ''World of Winx'' is an Italian Flash 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 ...

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

WOW (channel) Pen Studios (formerly Pen India Limited) 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, Telugu and Tamil films. In 1992, the ...

, 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 Australi ...

, 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 night ...

, 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 Television. The station's studios are located on Farnam Street near downtown Omaha, and its transmitter is located on a "tower farm" ...

, 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

Transport

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

WOW Alliance WOW Cargo Alliance is a global cargo alliance between SAS Cargo Group and Singapore Airlines Cargo. WOW is the world's second largest cargo alliance consisting of only 2 members and is currently competing with the only other cargo allianc ...

, a global air-cargo alliance * Air Southwest, an airline based in the Southwest of England, by ICAO Airline Code *

Woolwich railway station Woolwich 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. History Woolwich railway station was built by Crossrail as part of the Cross ...

, London, England, by National Rail station code

Other

Lay's WOW chips Lay's WOW Chips were fat-free potato chips produced by Frito-Lay containing Olestra. They were first introduced in 1998, and were marketed using the Lay's, Ruffles, Doritos, and Tostitos brands. Although initially popular, charting sales of $4 ...

, 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), was a compatibility layer of 32-bit versions of the Windows NT family of operating systems since 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1, which extends NTVDM to provide limited s ...

, an application compatibility layer in 32-bit Microsoft Windows ** WoW64, 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 is a ...

, a pitch variation while playing a sound recording * WOW Film Festival (disambiguation), 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 appeared ...

, a strong radio signal of unknown origin detected by a SETI project in 1977