Zigzag (disambiguation)

Zigzag is a jagged, regular pattern.

Zigzag, ZigZag, zig zag or zig-zag may also refer to:

Film and television

 * Zigzag (1963 film)
 * Zig Zag (1970 film), a film by Richard A. Colla
 * Zig Zag (2002 film), a film by David S. Goyer
 * Zig Zag (Canadian TV series)
 * Zig Zag, an educational TV series on BBC Schools
 * Zigzag, a character in The Thief and the Cobbler
 * "Zig Zag", an episode of The Outer Limits, season 6

Music and theatre

 * Zig-Zag!, a 1917 musical revue
 * Zig Zag (The Hooters album) (1989)
 * Zig Zag (Tha Mexakinz album) (1994)
 * Zig Zag, a 2003 album by Earl Slick
 * Zig Zags, a heavy metal/punk rock band
 * Shintenchi Kaibyaku Shudan: Zigzag, a japanese visual-kei band

Culture

 * ZigZag (magazine), a UK rock music magazine
 * Zig Zag (manga), a cartoon series by Yuki Nakaji
 * Zigzag (surfing magazine)

Computer science

 * ZigZag (software), a data model designed and patented by Ted Nelson
 * Zig-zag product, a method for constructing graphs in computational complexity
 * Zig-Zag, a tree-rotation variant used to balance splay trees
 * Zig-zag entropy coding, a method used in JPEG images to compress data
 * ZigZag encoding, a mapping of the signed integers to unsigned integers that shortens variable-length quantity representations of negative integers

Geography

 * Zig Zag Pass, site of the Struggle on Zig Zag Pass in the Philippines during World War II
 * Zigzag, Oregon
 * Zigzag Glacier
 * Zigzag Ranger Station
 * Zigzag River and Little Zigzag River
 * Zigzag Bluff in Antarctica
 * Zigzag Island off the coast of Antarctica
 * Zigzag Pass on the island of South Georgia

Mathematics and cryptography

 * Boustrophedon transform, a zigzag reordering
 * Fence (mathematics) or zigzag poset, a partially ordered set
 * Isbell's zigzag theorem
 * Zig-zag lemma, a mathematical lemma in homological algebra
 * Zigzag cipher, a type of cipher, or code

Railroads

 * Zig zag (railway), a construction technique railroads use to climb hills; also called a switchback
 * Lapstone Zig Zag, a walking track on the line of an abandoned railway
 * Zig Zag Railway, a heritage railway near Lithgow
 * Zig Zag railway station, a railway station on the CityRail network near Lithgow, New South Wales
 * Kalamunda Zig Zag in Western Australia
 * Perry Bridge or Zig Zag Bridge, a 1711 bridge over River Tame in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England

Revolvers

 * Mauser Zig-Zag, a 19th-century revolver
 * Zig zag revolver, a 3D-printed revolver developed in Japan

Architecture

 * Zig-Zag Chair, designed by Gerrit Rietveld
 * Zig-zag moulding on Norman arches
 * Zigzag Moderne, a style and feature of Art Deco architecture

Animals

 * Phasianella zigzag, a species of sea snail
 * Northern zigzag salamander
 * Ozark zigzag salamander
 * Southern zigzag salamander
 * Zigzag barb, a ray-finned fish
 * Zigzag heron, a bird
 * Zigzagiceras, an extinct cephalopod genus

Other uses

 * Boustrophedon, writing in alternating directions
 * Zig Zag (1984 video game), a video game by DK'Tronics
 * Zig Zag (1987 video game), a video game by Mirrorsoft
 * Zig-Zag (company), a tobacco products company
 * Zig-zag bridge, a type of pedestrian walkway
 * USS Zigzag (SP-106), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919
 * Agent Zigzag, code name of Eddie Chapman, a British double agent
 * Zig-zag in-line package, a short-lived packaging technology for integrated circuits
 * Zigzag transformer, an engineering device for electrical systems
 * ZigZag, a ticketing scheme in Derbyshire, UK, by bus operator Trent Barton
 * Zig Zag Girl, a stage magic illusion
 * The zigzag model of plant-pathogen co-evolution by Jonathan D. G. Jones and Jeffery Dangl