Flyer or flier may refer to:

Common meanings

  • Aircraft pilot, a person who flies an aircraft
  • Flyer (pamphlet), a single-page leaflet

Arts and entertainment

  • Flyer (band), a Croatian pop band
  • Flyer (album), by Nanci Griffith
  • Flyer (New-Gen), a Marvel Comics superhero

Military uses

  • , an American World War II submarine
  • General Dynamics Flyer, an Advanced Light Strike Vehicle platform in development for the US military

People

  • Flier (surname)
  • Flyer (wrestler), ring name of a Mexican professional wrestler born 1994

Science and technology

  • Fast Low-Ionization Emission Region (FLIER), a poorly understood structure in some planetary nebulae
  • HTC Flyer, a tablet computer released by HTC
  • Flier (BEAM), a type of robot that can fly

Sports

Ice hockey

  • Philadelphia Flyers, a National Hockey League team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  • Pensacola Ice Flyers, an ice hockey team from Pensacola, Florida, United States
  • Spokane Flyers (senior), an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington, United States
  • Spokane Flyers (junior), an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington
  • 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

Baseball

  • Fullerton Flyers, a baseball team from Fullerton, California, United States
  • Panama City Fliers, a minor league baseball team based in Panama City, Florida, United States
  • Schaumburg Flyers, a baseball team from Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

School teams

  • Dayton Flyers, athletic teams of the University of Dayton, Ohio
  • Flyers, the sports teams of Waynflete School, Portland, Maine
  • Flyers and Lady Flyers, the sports teams of Franklin County High School (Kentucky)
  • Flyers, the teams of Chaminade High School, Mineola, New York

Other sports

  • Fort Worth Flyers, a basketball team from Fort Worth, Texas, United States
  • Flyer, a position in cheerleading stunts

Transportation

Automobiles

  • Flyer (1913 automobile), manufactured by the Flyer Motor Car Company in Michigan, United States, from 1913 to 1914
  • Alpena Flyer, an American automobile manufactured between 1910 and 1914 in Alpena, Michigan
  • 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

  • Wright Flyer, the first powered aircraft, built and flown by the Wright Brothers in 1903
  • 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
  • Flyer Indústria Aeronáutica, a Brazilian manufacturer of ultralight aircraft
  • Flyer F600 NG, an ultralight aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Flyer Industria Aeronáutica Ltda.
  • FLYER (magazine), a monthly UK aviation publication

Ships

  • Flyer (yacht), with which Conny van Rietschoten won the 1977–1978 Whitbread Round the World Race
  • Flyer II (yacht), with which Conny van Rietschoten won the 1981–1982 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

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
  • Berkshire Flyer, a seasonal Amtrak passenger train service between New York City and the Berkshire Mountains in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
  • 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 (ATSF train), a passenger service between Bakersfield and Oakland, in California, from 1939 to 1942
  • Valley Flyer, a passenger train between New Haven, Connecticut and Greenfield, Massachusetts

Buses

  • Flyer (bus service), bus services to Leeds Bradford Airport
  • Spondon Flyer, a bus service in England
  • Ilkeston Flyer, a bus service in England

Other uses

  • American Flyer, a toy train and model railroad brand
  • Singapore Flyer, a giant Ferris wheel
  • Flier (fish) (Centrarchus macropterus), a sunfish native to the southern United States
  • Memphis Flyer, a free weekly alternative newspaper
  • Filmotype Flyer, typeface produced by Filmotype
  • Flyer, one of the two components of a flying buttress
  • Flyer, a U-shaped mechanism in a spinning wheel, invented in the late 15th century
  • Flyer, a female kangaroo

See also

  • New Flyer, a Canadian bus manufacturer