Flicker may refer to:

Animals

  • Flickers, woodpeckers of the subgenus Colaptes
  • Examples include: Andean flicker, Bermuda flicker (extinct), campo flicker, Chilean flicker, Fernandina's flicker, gilded flicker, and northern flicker

Engineering and science

  • Flicker (light), a perceptible change in brightness of a light source
  • Flicker (screen), a darkness artifact that occurs on a video display not present in source material
  • Flicker noise, electrical noise with a 1/f spectrum
  • Flickering, possible behavior of a complex dynamical system as it approaches a critical transition
  • Power-line flicker, a fluctuation in the voltage of AC power lines, whose compliance is regulated by IEC61000-3-3

People

  • Flicker (surname), includes a list of notable people with the surname
  • Flicker, the original bass guitarist for the band Manic Street Preachers

Books

  • Flicker (novel), by Theodore Roszak

Fictional characters

  • Flicker, a character in the cartoon and video game Blazing Dragons
  • Flicker, a character in The Ice King of Oz and subsequent books by Eric Shanower

Movies

  • Flicker (film) (stylized as FLicKeR), a 2008 Canadian film
  • The Flicker, an experimental film created in 1965 by Tony Conrad

Music

  • Flicker, the sophomore album by Ayria
  • Flicker (album), the debut studio album by Niall Horan; also the name of the title track
  • "Flicker" (song), a song by Porter Robinson from the album Worlds
  • "Flicker", a song by Audio Adrenaline from the album Some Kind of Zombie
  • "Flicker", a song by Itzy from the EP Tunnel Vision
  • "Flicker", a song by Poppy from the album Zig
  • Flicker Records, a record label belonging to Sony

Television

  • "Flicker" (American Horror Story), seventh episode of the fifth season of the anthology television series American Horror Story

Slang

  • A remote control device (especially for televisions)
  • A flyswatter

Other uses

  • Flicker, a 1973 pinball table made by Bally
  • Flicker, a guitar tremolo made by ESP Guitars in the late 1970s and early 1980s
  • USS Flicker, several ships of the United States Navy

See also

  • Flecker, a surname
  • Flick (disambiguation)
  • Flicka, a 2006 film based on the book My Friend Flicka
  • Flickr, a digital photo sharing website and service