Switchback
# 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
