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A wheel is a circular device that is capable of rotating on an axle.

Wheel may also refer to:

Machinery

• Ferris wheel
• Breaking wheel, a medieval execution device
• English wheel, a metalworking tool used to curve sheet metal
• Hamster wheel, an exercise toy used by pet rodents
• Water wheel, a wheel for converting the energy of flowing or falling water
• Steering wheel, for steering land vehicles
• Ship's wheel, for steering water vessels
• Potter's wheel, for shaping ceramics
• Rim (wheel), the periphery or outside edge of a wheel
• Bicycle
• Alloy wheel, a type of automobile wheel
• Artillery wheel, a type of wheel most recently used on American cars
• Steel wheel
• Train wheel
• Wagon wheel
• Wheel and axle, a simple machine that translates torque or force applied at one radius to a different force or torque at a different radius
• Wire wheel

Science and technology

• Wheel (algebra), an algebra in which division by zero is possible
• Wheel (computing), in computing, a user group that provides additional special system privileges
• Prayer wheel (slide rule), a circular slide rule
• Wheel (Python), a "setuptools" package format extension replacing "egg" package format
• Wheel graph, a mathematical concept

Geography

• Wheel, Kentucky, U.S.
• Wheel, Tennessee, U.S.

Religion

• Wheel of Law or Wheel of Dharma, a symbol that has represented dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment
• In the Judeo-Christian tradition, the following classes of celestial beings:
  • Throne (angel)
  • Ophanim
• Prayer wheel, a cylindrical wheel on a spindle

Film and television

• La Roue (The Wheel), a 1923 French film
• The Wheel (1925 film)
• The Wheel (game show), a British television game show created and hosted by Michael McIntyre
• "The Wheel", a wheel in the game show Wheel of Fortune
• "The Wheel" (Law & Order), a 2002 episode of Law & Order
• "The Wheel" (Mad Men), an episode of Mad Men
• The Wheel, a 1983 production by the Theatre New Brunswick
• Das Rad (The Wheel), a 2001 animated short
• The Wheel (2021 film)

Music

• "The Wheel", the nickname of guitarist Radomir Mihailović
• Wheel (album), a 2013 album by Laura Stevenson
• The Wheel (band), Australian country music band.
• The Wheel (Asleep at the Wheel album), a 1977 album by Asleep at the Wheel
• The Wheel (Rosanne Cash album), a 1993 album by Rosanne Cash
• The Wheel, 2003 album by David Olney

Songs

• "The Wheel", a song by Bill Black's Combo, 1960
• "The Wheel", a song by The Breakaways Australia, 1964
• "The Wheel", a song by Bert Jansch from Lucky Thirteen (Bert Jansch album), 1966
• "The Wheel", a song and single by Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, and Bill Kreutzmann from the 1972 album Garcia
• "The Wheel", a song and single by Spear Of Destiny from Grapes of Wrath (album), 1983
• "The Wheel", a song by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians from Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars, 1988
• "The Wheel", a song by Rosanne Cash from album of the same name, 1993
• "The Wheel" (song), a song by PJ Harvey, 2016
• "The Wheel", a song by Australian psychedelic rock band King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, the closing track to their 2017 album Gumboot Soup

Other

• Agricultural Wheel, an alliance of farmers in Arkansas
• The Wheel, a short story by John Wyndham, published in the collection Jizzle
• An ace-to-five straight, a type of poker hand
• The Wheel (charity), a charity support association in Ireland
• Wheel (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent
• Wheel (route), a pattern run by a receiver or running back in American football

People with the surname

• Geoff Wheel (born 1951), Welsh rugby union player
• Lesley Wheel (1929–2004), American architectural lighting designer

See also

• Wheels (disambiguation)
• Wheeling (disambiguation)
• Wheelhouse (disambiguation)
• Wheal (disambiguation)
• WEEL (disambiguation)

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