Sidewinder

Sidewinder may refer to:

• Crotalus cerastes, a venomous pit-viper species found in the southwestern United States
• Bitis peringueyi, a venomous adder species found in Namibia and southern Angola

Aircraft

• Smyth Sidewinder, a two seat experimental aircraft developed in 1969
• Bell Sidewinder, a clone of the Phantom X1 aircraft

Automobiles

• Dodge Sidewinder, a 1997 concept car
• Kia Sidewinder, a 2006 concept car

Computing

• Microsoft SideWinder, a family of digital game controllers
• Secure Computing's Sidewinder firewall, which has since been re-branded McAfee Firewall Enterprise, after its acquisition by McAfee

Fiction

• Sidewinder (comics), a fictional supervillain in comic books published by Marvel Comics
• Code name for Budd (Kill Bill), a character in the Kill Bill films
• Sidewinder, a Thunderbirds machine in the British TV series
• Sidewinder, a racing team in Initial D

Military

• AIM-9 Sidewinder, a heat-seeking, short-range, air-to-air missile

Music

• Sidewinder (band), an Australian band
• Sidewinders, a barbershop quartet
• The Sidewinders, an Arizona rock band
• Sidewinder (EP), a 1996 EP by the Industrial music band Download
• The Sidewinder, a 1964 album by Lee Morgan
• "The Sidewinder" (song), a song by Lee Morgan
• "Sidewinder" (song), a song on Avenged Sevenfold's 2005 album City of Evil
• "Sidewinder", a song by Lard from Pure Chewing Satisfaction
• "Sidewinder", a song by The Cynic Project
• "Sidewinder", a song by Photek from Form & Function Vol. 2
• "Sidewinder", a song by Avenged Sevenfold from City of Evil
• "Sidewinder", a song by Catfish and the Bottlemen from The Balcony
• "Sidewinder", an electronic music composition and album by Morton Subotnick

Roller coasters

• A Sidewinder is a type of roller coaster inversion, similar to an Immelmann inversion.
• Sidewinder (Elitch Gardens), a steel roller coaster in Denver, Colorado
• Sidewinder (Hersheypark), a steel roller coaster in Hershey, Pennsylvania
• Sidewinder at Sandcastle Waterworld in Blackpool, England

Sports

• Sidewinders (X-League), an American football team in Japan
• Sidewinder, a baseball pitcher who uses a sidearm or submarine-style delivery
• Sidewinder, a freestyle skateboarding trick
• Tucson Sidewinders, a AAA baseball team named after the snake

Video games

• Sidewinder (Mastertronic video game), a 1988 game for the Amiga
• Mission Cobra, a 1989 action arcade game released in Australia as Sidewinder

Other uses

• A style of socks
• Sidewinder (slot car), a type of slot car or model car with a transverse motor
• Vriesea 'Sidewinder', a hybrid cultivar