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