Sidewinder
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Sidewinder may refer to:
Snakes
[edit]- Sidewinding, a form of locomotion used by some snakes
- Bitis peringueyi or sidewinding adder, a venomous adder species found in Namibia and southern Angola
- Cerastes cerastes or Saharan horned viper, a venomous pit viper found in northern Africa and parts of the Middle East
- Crotalus cerastes or sidewinder rattlesnake, a venomous pit viper species found in the southwestern United States
Amusement park rides
[edit]- Sidewinder (roller coaster element), an inversion involving a half-loop followed by a half-corkscrew
- Sidewinder (Elitch Gardens), a roller coaster in Denver, Colorado
- Sidewinder (Hersheypark), a roller coaster in Hershey, Pennsylvania
- Sidewinder, a ride at Sandcastle Waterworld in Blackpool, England
Computing
[edit]- Microsoft SideWinder, a family of digital game controllers
- Sidewinder, firewall software from Secure Computing (now McAfee)
Fiction
[edit]- Sidewinder (character), a Marvel supervillain
- Budd (Kill Bill) or Sidewinder, a character in the Kill Bill films
- Sidewinder, a machine in the Thunderbirds TV series
- The nickname of Patience Barton in the 1969 film Support Your Local Gunfighter
Music
[edit]- Sidewinder (band), a band from Australia
- Sidewinders, a barbershop quartet
- The Sidewinders, an Arizona rock band
- Sidewinder (EP), a 1996 EP by Download
- The Sidewinder, a 1964 album by Lee Morgan
- "The Sidewinder" (composition), a composition by Lee Morgan
- Sidewinder a 2017 EP by Stand Atlantic
- Sidewinder, an electronic music composition and album by Morton Subotnick
- "Sidewinder", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from City of Evil
- "Sidewinder", a song by Catfish and the Bottlemen from The Balcony
- "Sidewinder", a song by The Cynic Project
- "Sidewinder", a song by Lard from Pure Chewing Satisfaction
- "Sidewinder", a song by Photek from Form & Function Vol. 2
- "Sidewinder", a song by Stand Atlantic from Sidewinder EP
Sports
[edit]- Sidewinders (X-League), an American football team in Japan
- Tucson Sidewinders, a AAA baseball team
- Sidewinder, a freestyle skateboarding trick
- Sidewinder, a baseball pitcher who throws using a side-arm delivery
Vehicles
[edit]- Bell Sidewinder, a clone of the Phantom X1 aircraft
- Dodge Sidewinder, a 1997 concept car
- Kia Sidewinder, a 2006 concept car
- Smyth Sidewinder, a two-seat experimental aircraft developed in 1969
- Shay_locomotive, A geared steam locomotive with a driveshaft connecting the side mounted cylinders with gears mounted to the end of the drive axles was often referred to as a sidewinder
Video games
[edit]- Sidewinder (Mastertronic video game), a 1988 video game for the Amiga
- Sidewinder (video game) or Mission Cobra, a 1989 action arcade game for NES
Other uses
[edit]- AIM-9 Sidewinder, an air-to-air missile
- A mini-revolver manufactured by North American Arms
- Sidewinder (slot car), a type of model car with a transverse motor
- Operation Sidewinder (disambiguation)
See also
[edit]- "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", a song by R.E.M.