Switchback
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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" (Celldweller)", a 2003 Electronic Rock song from Celldweller's 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)