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 composition by Lee Morgan
 * 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)