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World Masters Orienteering Championships
The World Masters Orienteering Championships (WMOC), begun as the Veteran World Cup in 1983, is the International Orienteering Federation's annual championship for orienteers aged 35 and over.
World Matchplay (darts)
The World Matchplay is a major PDC darts tournament held every July at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool since 1994, second in prestige only to the World Championship.
World Mental Health Day
World Mental Health Day, held every 10 October since 1992, was established by the World Federation for Mental Health and is marked by WHO campaigns with annual themes; the 2026 theme is lived experience.
World Meteorological Organization
World Meteorological Organization (WMO), UN specialized agency (since 1951) for weather, climate, hydrology and related geophysical sciences, successor to the 1873 International Meteorological Organization, headquartered in Geneva with 193 Members, led by Congress, the Executive Council and a Secretary-General, and co-leading the Early Warnings for All initiative.
World Metrology Day
World Metrology Day is an annual observance on 20 May celebrating measurement's role in daily life and marking the 1875 Metre Convention signing that created the BIPM.
World Minifootball Federation
World Minifootball Federation (WMF), Prague-registered not-for-profit governing body for minifootball (5–8-a-side, arena soccer), led by President Filip Juda; runs WMF World Cup, distinct from the International Minifootball Federation.
World Mission Society Church of God
The World Mission Society Church of God (WMSCOG) is a South Korean new religious movement founded in 1964, believing Ahn Sahng-hong was Second Coming Christ.
World Mixed Curling Championship
The World Mixed Curling Championship is an annual international curling tournament for teams of two women and two men, held each autumn since 2015 and open to all World Curling members.
World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship
World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship, annual world title for two-player mixed-gender curling teams, first held 2008 in Vierumaki, Finland. Australia's Gill and Hewitt are 2026 champions; Italy won 2025.
World Mizrachi
World Mizrachi (Mizrachi, מזרחי, merkaz ruchani) is the global Religious Zionist movement founded in Vilna in 1902 by Rabbi Yitzchak Yaakov Reines; based in Jerusalem since 1920, with branches in over 40 countries and US affiliate Religious Zionists of America.
World model (artificial intelligence)
A world model in artificial intelligence is a learned internal representation of an environment that predicts how it evolves, letting agents plan inside the model.
World models
A world model is a learned internal predictive model of how an environment evolves and responds to an agent's actions, popularized by Ha and Schmidhuber's 2018 paper.
World Mosquito Day
World Mosquito Day is an annual observance held on 20 August, marking the day in 1897 when British doctor Ronald Ross found malaria parasites in a mosquito in India.
World music
World music: a label for non-Western popular and traditional music. Coined by Robert E. Brown at Wesleyan in the early 1960s; adopted as a marketing category by 11 London labels in 1987.
World Naked Bike Ride
The World Naked Bike Ride is a clothing-optional cycling event held yearly in hundreds of cities, protesting oil dependence and car culture while highlighting cyclist vulnerability.
World Naked Gardening Day
World Naked Gardening Day (WNGD), founded 2005 by Mark Storey and Jacob Gabriel via Seattle's Body Freedom Collaborative, is an annual first-Saturday-of-May event encouraging clothes-free gardening; first held September 10, 2005, unowned, naturist-endorsed.
World News (band)
World News are a London four-piece jangly indie rock band formed as Tinman in Brighton in 2018 by brothers Alex and Rory Evans; debut album In Purgatory (2026) on their Pie & Mash label.
World News Daily Report
World News Daily Report (WNDR) is a Canadian satirical fake news website founded in 2013 by Janick Murray-Hall and Olivier Legault, known for fictional stories shared as real news and frequent fact-checking.
World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships
The World Ninepin Bowling Classic Championships are the international championships in Classic ninepin bowling, run by the World Ninepin Bowling Association's Ninepin Bowling Classic section.
World No Tobacco Day
World No Tobacco Day (WNTD) is WHO's annual 31 May observance, created in 1987, with yearly themes such as Unmasking the Appeal targeting flavoured products and youth nicotine addiction.
World nordic ski championships
The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships are the International Ski and Snowboard Federation's title competitions for cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and Nordic combined, held biennially in odd years.
World Nuclear Association
The World Nuclear Association, founded as the Uranium Institute in 1975, is a London-based trade association representing the global civil nuclear industry and promoting tripling nuclear capacity by 2050.
World Ocean Circulation Experiment
The World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE), the first project of the World Climate Research Programme, was an international program on ocean circulation and climate, with observations from 1990 to 1998.
World of A Song of Ice and Fire
The World of A Song of Ice and Fire, or Game of Thrones, is the fictional setting for George R. R. Martin's epic fantasy series.
World of Art
World of Art (Mir iskusstva) was a St. Petersburg artistic and literary movement of the late 1890s and early 1900s, centered on Alexander Benois and Sergei Diaghilev.
World of Dance (TV series)
World of Dance was an NBC dance competition series (2017-2020), the TV version of the World of Dance live brand, judged by Jennifer Lopez, Derek Hough, and NE-YO, with a $1 million prize, five-round format, and 100-point scoring; canceled after four seasons with MDC 3 as final champion.
World of Darkness
World of Darkness: gothic-punk horror tabletop RPG setting from White Wolf (1991, Vampire: The Masquerade), split into classic and Chronicles of Darkness lines; owned by Paradox, rebranded White Wolf in 2025.
World of Final Fantasy
World of Final Fantasy (ワールド オブ ファイナルファンタジー) is a 2016 Tose-developed, Square Enix-published JRPG for PS4 and Vita where twins Lann and Reynn capture Mirages in Grymoire and stack them in battle; Maxima edition followed in 2018.
World of Goo 2
World of Goo 2 is a 2024 physics puzzle game by 2DBOY and Tomorrow Corporation, sequel to World of Goo (2008), with liquid goo mechanics, 5 chapters, 60+ levels, Epic-funded launch, later Steam, PS5, and mobile releases.
World of Music, Arts and Dance
WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) is an international festival co-founded by Peter Gabriel in England in 1982; first held at Bath and West Showground, it has staged 160+ editions in 27 countries, with editions including WOMADelaide and WOMAD Cáceres.