Switchback
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Switchback may refer to:
Transportation
- A road joined by hairpin turn
- A zig-zagging pedestrian or cycling ramp
- A roller coaster, or a roller coaster-like road
- Switchback Railway, the first roller coaster designed as an amusement ride in America
- Zig zag (railway), a railway with high ascents and descents
- A motorcycle having detachable windscreens and luggage bags, e.g. Harley-Davidson's Dyna 2012 model
- The Switchback, a former railway line in Glasgow, Scotland
- A horseshoe curve
Entertainment
- Switchback Roller Coaster, a wooden roller coaster located at ZDT's Amusement Park
- Switchback (band), a duo which plays Americana music
- Switchback (TV series), 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 Danny Glover
- "Switchback" (Celldweller song), a song from Celldweller's album Celldweller
- "Switchback" (Music for Pleasure song), a song from Music for Pleasure's album Into the Rain
Other uses
- Switchback, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
- In asymptotic analysis (mathematics), a term of intermediate order multiplying a homogenous solution (forced by matching to an outer solution)