# Wheel (disambiguation)

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 (American game show)
* "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 (1951–2024), Welsh rugby union player
* Lesley Wheel (1929–2004), American architectural lighting designer