Wingnut

Wingnut may refer to:

Botany

• Pterocarya, a genus of trees bearing winged nuts
• Terminalia canescens, a species of tree native to northern Australia

Entertainment

• Wing Nuts: Battle in the Sky, a video game created by Rocket Science Games
• Wingnut, a character in the Care Bears franchise introduced in the movie Care Bears: Oopsy Does It!
• WingNuts: Temporal Navigator, a computer game created by Freeverse Software

Slang terms

• Wingnut (politics), an American slang term for a person who holds extreme political views
• Wingnut, an eccentric person
• Wingnut, a fan of the NBC television drama series The West Wing
• Wingnut, a fan of the Detroit Red Wings
• Wingnut, a fan of the video game series Wing Commander
• Wingnut, military slang for members of the United States Air Force
• Wingnut, a Honda Gold Wing motorcycle enthusiast
• Wingnut, an Australian term for someone whose ears stick out

Sports

• Wingnut, nickname of Robert Weaver (surfer) (born 1965), an American surfer
• Wichita Wingnuts, a Wichita, Kansas, baseball team
• Wingnut, nickname of Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist
• WingNuts, name of a capsized sports boat involving fatalities in the 2011 Chicago Yacht Club Race to Mackinac

Other uses

• WingNut Films, film production company owned by Peter Jackson
• Wingnut (hardware), a nut with a pair of wings to enable it to be easily turned by hand