WS, Ws, or ws may refer to:

Businesses and organizations

  • Ware Shoals Railroad (reporting mark WS), South Carolina, United States
  • WestJet (IATA airline code WS)
  • Society of Writers to His Majesty's Signet, in post-nomial abbreviation (WS Society)
  • Williams Street, the production arm for Cartoon Network’s nighttime programming block, Adult Swim
  • Warm Showers, a non-profit hospitality exchange network for world cyclists.
  • Williams-Sonoma, Inc., American kitchenware and home furnishings retailer.
  • Wikisource, an online digital library of free-content textual sources on a wiki

Places

  • WS postcode area, West Midlands, UK
  • Samoa (ISO 3166-1 country code WS)
  • Washington state (United States)
  • Winschoten railway station, the Netherlands, station code
  • Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Science and technology

  • .ws, the Internet country code top-level domain for Samoa
  • WebSocket URI scheme, e.g. <code>ws://example.com</code>
  • Watt second (Ws) or Joule, a unit of energy
  • Web service, software system designed to support machine-to-machine interaction over the Web
  • Werner syndrome, premature aging
  • White striping, a condition in poultry where fat replaces muscle
  • Williams syndrome, a developmental disorder
  • WonderSwan, handheld game console

Sports

  • World Sailing, world governing body for the sport of sailing
  • The World Series, the annual championship series of Major League Baseball postseason
  • World Series (disambiguation)

Others

  • Winter Semester in German Academic Year

See also

  • The W's, a 1990s Christian swing band
  • WS FTP, a File Transfer Protocol client