Sidewinder
# 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

## 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)
