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Walid Regragui
Walid Regragui, born 1975 in Corbeil-Essonnes, France, is a Moroccan football manager and former right-back (45 caps) who led Morocco to the 2022 World Cup semi-final, won AFCON 2025, and resigned in March 2026.
Walid Toufic
Walid Toufic (وليد توفيق), born Walid Toutounji in 1954 in Tripoli, Lebanon, is a Lebanese singer and oud player known for the party staple 'Enzel Ya Gameel'.
Walide Khyar
Walide Khyar (born 1995, Bondy) is a French judoka, −66 kg, Olympic mixed-team champion at Paris 2024, European champion 2016 at −60 kg, world bronze medallist 2023, and Abu Dhabi Grand Slam winner 2025.
Walidia power station
Walidia power station, also known as Assiut El-Walidia Power Plant, is a thermal power station near Assiut, Upper Egypt, about 375 km south of Cairo, with a listed capacity of about 1,250 MW.
Walihotun City Site
瓦里霍吞城址 (Walihotun City Site), a Liao-to-Qing walled city on the Songhua River in Huachuan County, Heilongjiang; 3,500 m perimeter, 800,000 m²; national protected site Ⅰ-66 since 2006.
Walima (وليمة)
Walima (وليمة, walimat al-'urs) is the Islamic wedding banquet, a sunnah feast hosted after marriage to announce it publicly. Root walam means to gather; best held after consummation, kept simple, with rich and poor invited.
Walk Among Us
Walk Among Us is the debut full-length studio album by the American horror punk band the Misfits. Released in 1982, it was recorded in New Jersey.
Walk for Peace
Walk for Peace names several peace walks, chiefly the 2025-26 Buddhist pilgrimage of 19 monks led by Bhikkhu Pannakara, 2,300 miles from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, D.C., ending at the Lincoln Memorial.
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story is a 2007 American comedy film parodying musical biopics, starring John C. Reilly as fictional rock legend Dewey Cox.
Walk Like an Egyptian
Walk Like an Egyptian is a 1986 hit by The Bangles, written by Liam Sternberg and produced by David Kahne for Different Light; it topped the US Billboard Hot 100 for four weeks, peaked at number 3 in the UK, and popularized a stiff-armed dance pose.
Walk of Fame (song)
Walk of Fame is a 2025 song by Miley Cyrus featuring Brittany Howard, track 9 on Something Beautiful, a six-minute disco-rock/hi-NRG single released May 28, 2025 on Columbia.
Walk of Punishment
Walk of Punishment is the third episode of Game of Thrones season 3, the 23rd overall, aired April 14, 2013, written by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss and directed by Benioff, first showrunner-directed episode, ending with Jaime Lannister's hand severed.
Walk of Shame (film)
Walk of Shame is a 2014 American comedy film written and directed by Steven Brill, starring Elizabeth Banks as a news anchor stranded in Los Angeles.
Walk off the Earth
Walk off the Earth, Canadian indie pop band formed 2006 in Burlington, Ontario, known for multi-instrumental viral videos; its five-people-one-guitar 2012 Gotye cover passed 100 million views and led to Columbia Records and Juno Awards.
Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song)
Walk on the Wild Side, Lou Reed's 1972 single from Transformer, produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, portrays five real Warhol Factory figures; it peaked at UK number 10 and US number 16 and was Reed's only top-ten hit.
Walk the Blue Fields
Walk the Blue Fields is a romantic drama film directed by John Crowley and adapted from Claire Keegan's 2007 short story collection. It stars Emily Blunt and Andrew Scott.
Walk the Line
Walk the Line (2005) is James Mangold's Johnny Cash biopic, also called the Johnny Cash June Carter film, starring Joaquin Phoenix and Oscar-winning Reese Witherspoon, based on Cash's autobiographies and released by 20th Century Fox.
Walk the Moon
Walk the Moon: American pop-rock band formed 2006 in Cincinnati, Ohio, also known as WALK THE MOON, named after the Police song. Famous for the 2014 triple-platinum hit 'Shut Up and Dance' (No. 4 Hot 100); on hiatus since 2023.
Walk This Road (album)
Walk This Road (2025) is the Doobie Brothers' 16th studio album on Rhino, the first with Michael McDonald since 1980, produced by John Shanks, featuring Mavis Staples and Mick Fleetwood, Metascore 69.
Walk This Way
Walk This Way: Aerosmith song by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, 1975 on Toys in the Attic; its 1986 Run-DMC cover produced by Rick Rubin peaked at No. 4, first rap Top 10 hit.
Walk-in cooler
A walk-in cooler is an enclosed, refrigerated storage space a person can walk into, held above 32 °F and used to keep perishable food cold in restaurants, grocery stores, and warehouses.
WALK-MAN
WALK-MAN was a humanoid robot built by the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia for disaster response, representing the EU at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals.
Walk-off home run
Walk-off home run: a bottom-of-the-last-inning homer that gives the home team the lead and ends the game. Term coined by Dennis Eckersley (1988); famous examples include Mazeroski 1960, Gibson 1988, Freeman 2024.
Walk-on (sports)
Walk-on (sports): a college athlete who joins a team without an athletic scholarship, via tryout or invitation; includes preferred walk-ons, and covers how House settlement roster limits changed walk-on opportunities.
Walka Water Works
Walka Water Works is a heritage-listed 19th-century water pumping and filtration complex near Maitland, New South Wales, the Lower Hunter's sole water supply from 1887 to 1929.
Walkabout
Walkabout is an Australian English term from 1828 for Aboriginal movement into the bush, used pejoratively by settlers for aimless wandering while carrying Indigenous meanings of purposeful travel through Country for food, ceremony, and renewal.
Walkabout (film)
Walkabout is a 1971 film directed and photographed by Nicolas Roeg, based on James Vance Marshall's novel, starring Jenny Agutter, Luc Roeg, and David Gulpilil; premiered at Cannes 1971, a box-office flop later reevaluated as an Australian New Wave landmark.
WalkAway campaign
WalkAway (#WalkAway) is a 2018 American social media campaign founded by Brandon Straka urging Democrats and liberals to leave the Democratic Party via video testimonials; boosted by suspected Russian bots, it later became a PAC and survived his January 6 pardon.
Walkbot
Walkbot is a treadmill-based robotic gait training system by South Korean company P&S Mechanics, whose exoskeleton drives the hips, knees, and ankles during neurological rehabilitation.
Walker (Star Wars)
Walkers in Star Wars are legged armored ground vehicles, chiefly the Empire's four-legged AT-AT (over 20 m tall) and two-legged AT-ST scout walker (9.04 m), plus First Order UA-TT and AT-M6, designed from Syd Mead art and War of the Worlds tripods.