Flyer
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Flyer or flier may refer to:
- An aviator
- Flyer (pamphlet), a single-page leaflet
Music
- Flyer (album), by Nanci Griffith
- Flyer (band)
Sports teams
- Fife Flyers, an ice hockey team from Kirkcaldy, Scotland
- Kloten Flyers, an ice hockey team from Kloten, Switzerland
- Spektrum Flyers, an ice hockey team from Oslo, Norway
United States
- Philadelphia Flyers, a National Hockey League team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Dayton Flyers, athletic teams of the University of Dayton, Ohio
- Fort Worth Flyers, a basketball team from Fort Worth, Texas
- Orange County Flyers, a baseball team from Fullerton, California
- Panama City Fliers, a minor league baseball team based in Panama City, Florida
- Pensacola Ice Flyers, an ice hockey team from Pensacola, Florida
- Schaumburg Flyers, a baseball team from Schaumburg, Illinois
- Spokane Flyers (junior), an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington
- Spokane Flyers (senior), an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington
- Waynflete Flyers, mascot of Waynflete School, Portland, Maine
- Franklin County High School, a Kentucky high school that uses "Flyers" as the mascot. For ladies, the sports teams are "Lady Flyers".
Transportation
Automobiles
- Flyer (automobile), manufactured by the Flyer Motor Car Company in Michigan, United States, from 1913 to 1914
- BYD Flyer, manufactured by BYD Auto in Shenzhen, China, since 2004
- Smith Flyer, manufactured by A.O. Smith Company in Milwaukee, United States, from 1915 until about 1919
- Thomas Flyer, manufactured by Thomas Motor Company
Aviation
- FLYER (magazine), a monthly UK aviation publication
- Abramovich Flyer, a biplane built by Vsevolod Abramovich in 1912
- Fisher Flyer, a single-engined ultralight biplane built by Michael Fisher in 1980
- Kolb Flyer, a twin-engined ultralight monoplane produced in kit form by Kolb Aircraft from 1980 to 1982
- Pfitzner Flyer, a monoplane designed by Alexander Pfitzner in 1909
- Wright Flyer, world's first powered aircraft, built and flown by the Wright Brothers in 1903
Ships
- Flyer (yacht), yacht of Conny van Rietschoten with which he won the Whitbread Round the World Race
- Flyer II (yacht), yacht of Conny van Rietschoten with which he won the Whitbread Round the World Race
- Flyer (steamboat), a passenger ship which operated on Puget Sound from 1891 to 1930
- USNS Flyer, a cargo ship launched in 1944
- USS Flier, a submarine launched in 1943
Trains
Australia
- Newcastle Flyer, an express passenger service connecting Newcastle and Sydney from 1929 to 1988
New Zealand
- Kingston Flyer, a vintage steam service begun in 1982
- Kingston Flyer (train), an express passenger service operated between the 1890s and 1957
- Taranaki Flyer, a passenger service between New Plymouth and Wanganui which ended in 1959
United States
- Century Flyer, an historic narrow-gauge train
- Champlain Flyer, a commuter service connecting Burlington, Shelburne, and Charlotte, in Vermont, from 2000 to 2003
- Heartland Flyer, a passenger train between Fort Worth, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, begun in 1999
- Valley Flyer, a passenger service between Bakersfield and Oakland, in California, from 1939 to 1942
Other uses
- Flier (fish) (Centrarchus macropterus), a sunfish native to the southern United States
- Flier (surname)
- American Flyer, a toy train and model railroad brand
- Memphis Flyer, a free weekly alternative newspaper
- Singapore Flyer, a giant Ferris wheel
- Flyer, one of the two components of a flying buttress
- Fast Low-Ionization Emission Region (FLIER), a poorly understood structure in some planetary nebulae
- HTC Flyer, a tablet computer released by HTC
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