• Pain wind-up, central sensitization caused by repeated stimulation of C nociceptors
• Windup, one of the two legal pitching positions in baseball
• Wind-up Records, a New York record label
• Wind It Up (Rewound), an album by The Prodigy
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, a novel by Haruki Murakami
• "Wind Up", a song from the 2001 album Full Collapse by post-hardcore band Thursday
• Wind Up, a song by Foo Fighters from their 1997 album The Colour and the Shape.
• Wind Up, a song by Jethro Tull off their 1971 album Aqualung (Jethro Tull album)
• Integral windup, an error condition that occurs in a PID controller
• The Windup Girl, a science fiction novel by Paolo Bacigalupi

Puede inscribirse en el grupo de canciones de estilo hard rock del álbum, junto con Aqualung, "Hymn 43 y "Locomotive Breath", aunque contiene partes acústicas, en el clásico contraste entre pasajes enérgicos y suaves melodías tan característico de los Jethro Tull.

Con esta canción se cerraba el LP.