Switchback

Switchback may refer to:

Transportation

 * A hairpin turn on a road
 * A horseshoe curve
 * A zigzagging pedestrian or cycling ramp
 * A roller coaster, or a roller coaster-like road
 * A zig zag (railway)
 * The Switchback, a former railway line in Glasgow, Scotland
 * A motorcycle having detachable windscreens and luggage bags, e.g. Harley-Davidson's Dyna 2012 model

Entertainment

 * Switchback Railway, the first roller coaster designed as an amusement ride in the United States
 * Switchback (rollercoaster), 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)
 * Magnetic switchback, a sudden reversal in the magnetic field of the solar wind observed on the Sun