GW

GW may refer to:

Gaming

 * Games Workshop, a British manufacturer of miniature wargames (founded 1975)
 * Guild Wars, an episodic series of online role-playing games (from 2005)
 * GW, a fictional domotic artificial intelligence in Metal Gear Solid 2 (2001)

Periodicals

 * GateWorld, a Stargate fan news blog (published from 1999)
 * Gazeta Wyborcza, a Polish newspaper (from 1989)
 * Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, a German catalogue of incunabula (from 1925)
 * Golden Words, a Canadian satirical student newspaper (from 1967)

Other uses in arts and entertainment

 * Ghost Whisperer, a CBS television series (ran 2005–2010)
 * Ghostwriter, someone hired to author texts credited to another

Calendar

 * Golden Week (Japan), a period containing a number of holidays

Places

 * Guinea-Bissau (ISO 3166 country code)
 * Gawok railway station, Indonesia (station code)
 * George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, New York, U.S.
 * George Washington University, in Washington, D.C., U.S.
 * George Washington University Hospital

Physics

 * GW approximation, an estimate of a many-body electron system's self-energy
 * Gigawatt (GW), a unit for measuring power—equal to 109 watts
 * Gravitational waves, ripples in the curvature of spacetime that propagate as waves
 * The prefix on names of gravitational wave observations

Other uses in science, technology and mathematics

 * Game week, a fixture shorthand used in sports such as Fantasy football (association)
 * .gw, the Internet top-level domain of Guinea-Bissau
 * GW-BASIC, a Microsoft dialect of the BASIC programming language
 * Global warming, the ongoing climatic event
 * Grothendieck-Witt ring, of a mathematical field; see
 * GW, the human gene MASTL

People with the initials GW

 * George Washington (1732–1799), first president of the United States
 * Gene Wilder (1933–2016), American actor and comedian
 * George W. Bush (born 1946), forty-third president of the United States