Sidewinder

Sidewinder may refer to:

Snakes

• 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

• 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

• Microsoft SideWinder, a family of digital game controllers
• Sidewinder, firewall software from Secure Computing (now McAfee)

Fiction

• 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

• 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 jazz standard by Lee Morgan
• Holiday Sidewinder, an Australian indie pop singer
• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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)
• Sidewinder, and its redesign, Sidewinder 2, a range of manual closed-circuit rebreathers produced by KISS

See also

• "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite", a song by R.E.M.