Wild Explained

Wild, wild, wilds or wild may refer to:

Common meanings

• Wilderness, a wild natural environment
• Wildlife, an undomesticated organism
• Wildness, the quality of being wild or untamed

Art, media and entertainment

Film and television

• Wild (2014 film), a 2014 American film from the 2012 book
• Wild (2016 film), a 2016 German film
• The Wild, a 2006 Disney 3D animation film
• Wild (TV series), a 2006 American documentary television series
• The Wilds (TV series), a 2020 television series
• The Wild Robot, an upcoming 2024 DreamWorks 3D animation film

Literature

• a 2012 non-fiction book by Cheryl Strayed
• Wild, An elemental Journey, a 2006 autobiographical book by Jay Griffiths
• The Wild (novel), a 1991 novel by Whitley Strieber
• The Wild, a science fiction novel by David Zindell
• The Wilds, a 1998 limited-edition horror novel by Richard Laymon

Music

• Wild (band), a five-piece classical female group

Albums and EPs

• Wild (EP), 2015
• Wild, a 1999 album by Inkubus Sukkubus
• Wild, a 2016 album by Joanne Shaw Taylor
• Wild!, a 1989 album by Erasure
• Wild!!, a 2004 album by Terry Silverlight
• The Wild (Raekwon album), 2017
• The Wild (The Rural Alberta Advantage album), 2017

Songs and singles

• "Wild" (Jessie J song), 2013
• "Wild" (Namie Amuro song), 2009
• "Wild" (Troye Sivan song), 2015
• "Wild", a 2012 song by Beach House from their album Bloom
• "Wild", a 2000 song by Poe on her album Haunted
• "Wild", a 2020 single by John Legend (feat. Gary Clark Jr.) from his album Bigger Love
  • "Wild", a 2018 song by Trevor Daniel from his EP Homesick "The Wild", a song by Mumford & Sons from their 2018 album Delta

Concerts and tours

• The Wild Tour, 1995–1997 Red Hot Chili Peppers concert tour
• Walk In Lay Down (WILD), a biannual concert event at Washington University in St. Louis

Video games

• Wild (video game), a cancelled video game
• , a video game expansion pack

Organizations

• Wild (company), a German company which produces natural ingredients for food products
• Wild Heerbrugg, a Swiss company that makes optical instruments
• The Wilds Christian Association, a Protestant Christian organization in South Carolina

Places

• Wild (river), a small stream in Germany and The Netherlands
• Wild Center, a natural history center in Tupper Lake, New York
• Wild Lake, a lake near Idrija in western Slovenia
• The Wilds (Johannesburg), a municipal park in Johannesburg, South Africa
• The Wilds (Ohio), a wildlife conservation center in Muskingum County, Ohio

Radio stations

• WILD (AM), an AM station in the Boston radio market
• WILD-FM, the former callsign of an FM station in the Boston radio market, now WKAF
• WiLD 94.9 (KYLD), an FM station in San Francisco
• WLLD, a station in Tampa–St. Petersburg branded WiLD 94.1
• DXWT, popularly known as Wild FM, a radio station in the Philippines

Other uses

• Wild (surname), various people with the name
• Minnesota Wild, a National Hockey League team
• Wake Induced Lucid Dream, the move from a normal waking state into a dream state with no apparent lapse in consciousness
• Wheel Impact Load Detector, a type of railway defect detection device
• Wenatchee Wild, a major junior ice hockey club in the Western Hockey League

See also

• • • Willd., a botanical author abbreviation
• Wield, a civil parish in Hampshire, England
• Feral child, a human child who has lived isolated from human contact from a very young age
• Wilde (disambiguation)
• Wyld (disambiguation)
• Weld (disambiguation)
• Wylde (disambiguation)