Twister

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Twister most commonly refers to a tornado.

Twister or Twisters may also refer to:

Aviation

  • Pipistrel Twister, a Slovenian ultralight trike
  • Silence Twister, a German homebuilt aircraft design
  • Wings of Change Twister, an Austrian paraglider design

Entertainment

  • Twister (1989 film), a comedy film starring Suzy Amis and Crispin Glover
  • Twister (1996 film), a disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton
    • Twister...Ride it Out, a ride in Universal Studios Florida based on the film
    • Twisters (film), the 2024 sequel to the 1996 film
  • Twister (comics), a comic book superhero character
  • Twister (game), a Milton Bradley game
  • Twister (Knoebels Amusement Resort), a roller coaster at Knoebels amusement park in Elysburg, Pennsylvania
  • Twister, a CITV gameshow hosted by Nigel Mitchell
  • "Twister" (The Suite Life on Deck 90 Minute Special)
  • "Twister", a song on the 1988 "Weird Al" Yankovic album Even Worse
  • "Twister", a song on the 2001 Mariah Carey soundtrack Glitter
  • Twista (born 1973), American rapper
  • Twister (album), a 1988 album by Unrest
  • Twister, an album by Watershed
  • Twister, an album by Leisure (band)
  • Twister (play), a 1999 play by Ken Kesey
  • Twister (video game)

Other uses

  • Twister (fish), common name for the Bellapiscis medius species of fish
  • Twister (dragonfly), common name for the Tholymis tillarga species of dragonfly
  • Twister (ice cream), an ice cream made by Unilever's Heartbrand
  • Twister (pastry), a cruller
  • Twister (software), a decentralized P2P microblogging platform
  • Twister (yacht), a sailing keelboat
  • Twister supersonic separator, hydrocarbon processing system for the dehydration and dewpointing of natural gas
  • Twister, a type of spinal lock
  • Twister (band), a Brazilian pop rock band
  • Twisters (restaurant), a New Mexican restaurant chain

See also

  • Mersenne Twister, a pseudo-random number generator
  • Troubletwisters series, a 2011 young adult fantasy series by Garth Nix and Sean Williams
  • Ronja Twister, an electronics module for free space optic
  • Twist (disambiguation)
  • Twistor theory
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