diff --git a/sql/catalyst/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/parser/SqlBase.g4 b/sql/catalyst/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/parser/SqlBase.g4
index e2d34d1650ddc..5e732edb17baa 100644
--- a/sql/catalyst/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/parser/SqlBase.g4
+++ b/sql/catalyst/src/main/antlr4/org/apache/spark/sql/catalyst/parser/SqlBase.g4
@@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ namedWindow
 
 windowSpec
     : name=identifier  #windowRef
+    | '('name=identifier')'  #windowRef
     | '('
       ( CLUSTER BY partition+=expression (',' partition+=expression)*
       | ((PARTITION | DISTRIBUTE) BY partition+=expression (',' partition+=expression)*)?
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/inputs/window.sql b/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/inputs/window.sql
index cda4db4b449fe..faab4c61c8640 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/inputs/window.sql
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/inputs/window.sql
@@ -109,3 +109,9 @@ last_value(false, false) OVER w AS last_value_contain_null
 FROM testData
 WINDOW w AS ()
 ORDER BY cate, val;
+
+-- parentheses around window reference
+SELECT cate, sum(val) OVER (w)
+FROM testData
+WHERE val is not null
+WINDOW w AS (PARTITION BY cate ORDER BY val);
diff --git a/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/results/window.sql.out b/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/results/window.sql.out
index 5071e0bd26b2a..367dc4f513635 100644
--- a/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/results/window.sql.out
+++ b/sql/core/src/test/resources/sql-tests/results/window.sql.out
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 -- Automatically generated by SQLQueryTestSuite
--- Number of queries: 22
+-- Number of queries: 23
 
 
 -- !query 0
@@ -363,3 +363,20 @@ NULL	a	false	true	false	false	true	false
 1	b	false	true	false	false	true	false
 2	b	false	true	false	false	true	false
 3	b	false	true	false	false	true	false
+
+
+-- !query 22
+SELECT cate, sum(val) OVER (w)
+FROM testData
+WHERE val is not null
+WINDOW w AS (PARTITION BY cate ORDER BY val)
+-- !query 22 schema
+struct<cate:string,sum(CAST(val AS BIGINT)) OVER (PARTITION BY cate ORDER BY val ASC NULLS FIRST RANGE BETWEEN UNBOUNDED PRECEDING AND CURRENT ROW):bigint>
+-- !query 22 output
+NULL	3
+a	2
+a	2
+a	4
+b	1
+b	3
+b	6