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