Switchback

Switchback may refer to:

Transportation

• (primarily in American English) a road or trail joined by hairpin bends
• (primarily in British English) a roller coaster, or a roller coaster-like road (for the latter, see also in article on hairpin bend)
• Switchback Railway, the first roller coaster designed as an amusement ride in America
• Zig zag (railway), a railway with high ascents and descents

Entertainment

• Switchback (band), a duo which plays Americana music
• Switchback (CBC), a Canadian television show for children and teens broadcast on the CBC in the 1980s
• Switchback (comics), a Marvel Comics character connected to the X-Men
• Switchback (film), a 1997 film starring Dennis Quaid and R. Lee Ermey
• Switchback (song), by Celldweller

Other uses

• Switchback (online literary journal), a publication of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program of the University of San Francisco
• Switchback, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
• In asymptotic analysis, a term of intermediate order multiplying a homogenous solution (forced by matching to an outer solution)