Twister

Twister most commonly refers to a tornado.

Twister, or Twisters, or The Twisters may also refer to:

Animals

• Twister (fish), common name for the Bellapiscis medius species of fish
• Twister (dragonfly), common name for the Tholymis tillarga species of dragonfly

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 (soundtrack), the music from the 1996 movie
  • Twister...Ride It Out, a ride in Universal Studios Florida based on the film
  • Twisters (film), the 2024 sequel to the 1996 film
    • The music was released as a soundtrack, Twisters: The Album, and as a score album, Twisters (score)
    • The Twisters (film), 2024 American action film, a mockbuster of Twisters by The Asylum
  • Template:Twister (franchise), the Wikipedia navbox about all of these
• Twister roller coaster, a layout which tends to twist or interweave its track within itself several times
• Twister (Knoebels Amusement Resort), a roller coaster in Elysburg, Pennsylvania
• Twister (Lake Compounce), a roller coaster in Bristol and Southington, Connecticut
• Twister (Gröna Lund), a roller coaster in Stockholm, Sweden
• Twister III: Storm Chaser, a roller coaster at Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colorado
• Twister (comics), a superhero character from Blue Bolt Comics and Project Superpowers
• Twister (play), a 1999 play by Ken Kesey

Games

• Twister (game), "the game that ties you up in knots"
• Twister (video game), AKA Mother of Charlotte, 1986 shoot 'em up

Music

Bands

• Twister (band), Brazilian, pop rock
• The Twisters (Canadian band), blues
• Los Twisters, Chilean, rock 'n' roll
• Joey and the Twisters, a predecessor to The Royal Teens

Albums

• Twister (album), by Unrest, 1988
• Twister (Watershed album), 1995
• Twister, by Leisure (band), 2019

Songs

• "Twister", on the 1988 "Weird Al" Yankovic album Even Worse
• "Twister", a song by Mariah Carey from the 2001 soundtrack Glitter
• "Twister", a 1993 single by Watershed (American band)
• "Twister", a song by Gigi Perez from the album At the Beach, in Every Life

Television

• Twister, a 2001 children's/animation show by Scottish Television, broadcast in the 2009 programming strand wknd@stv
• "Twister" (2011), episodes 17–19 of season 3 of Disney Channel series The Suite Life on Deck
• Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez, one of the main characters in 1999–2004 Nickelodeon series Rocket Power
• Mo Twister, the professional name of Mohan Gumatay, a Filipino American radio and television presenter (born 1977)

Food

• Twister (ice cream), made by Unilever's Heartbrand
• Twister (pastry), a cruller
• Twisters (restaurant), a New Mexican restaurant chain

Sports

• Spinal lock § Twister, a move in combat sports, similar to the guillotine in wrestling
• Twister City Roller Derby (TCRD), a flat-track roller derby league based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• Twin City Twisters (TCT), an artistic gymnastics facility in Champlin, Minnesota

Teams

• Massachusetts Twisters, an American indoor soccer team based in West Springfield, Massachusetts
• Arkansas Twisters, an American indoor football team based in Little Rock, which eventually became the Texas Revolution
• Indiana Twisters (originally Indianapolis Twisters), an American indoor soccer team
• Pembina Valley Twisters, a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Morris, Manitoba
• Holzgerlingen Twister, an American football team from Holzgerlingen, Germany
• Torrington Twisters, an American baseball team based in Torrington, Connecticut, which became the New Bedford Bay Sox

Technology

• Twister (software), a decentralized P2P microblogging platform
• Twister (Software from Brokat AG), a modular e-services framework
• Mersenne Twister (MT), a pseudo-random number generator
• Twister OS, a Linux-based operating system
• Twister (microarchitecture), the CPU of the Apple A9
• Ronja Twister, an electronics module for free space optic
• Twister Telecom, a Mexican company
• Twister supersonic separator, hydrocarbon processing system for the dehydration and dewpointing of natural gas

Transportation

• Twister (yacht), a sailing keelboat
• Honda CB Twister, a motorcycle

Aviation

• Pipistrel Twister, a Slovenian ultralight trike
• Silence Twister, a German homebuilt aircraft design
• Wings of Change Twister, an Austrian paraglider design
• Payne Knight Twister, an American aerobatic sport aircraft

Other uses

• Twister (tree), a candidate for the oldest limber pine (Pinus flexilis) near the Alta Ski Area in Utah
• Twister ribozyme, a catalytic RNA structure capable of self-cleavage
• Twister, an occupation represented by the Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine)
• Draw twister, a machine used to draw and twist large quantities of polymer fibers
• Twister Falls, a waterfall in Hood River County, Oregon

See also

• Twist (disambiguation)
• Twistor theory
• Twista (born 1973), American rapper
• Anti-twister (disambiguation)
• Mister Twister (disambiguation)
• Ultra Twister (disambiguation)
• Tongue twister
• Troubletwisters (book series), a 2011 young adult fantasy series by Garth Nix and Sean Williams