Twister most commonly refers to a tornado.

Twister, or Twisters, or The Twisters may also refer to:

Animals

  • Twister (fish), common name for the Bellapiscis medius species of fish
  • Twister (dragonfly), common name for the Tholymis tillarga species of dragonfly

Entertainment

  • Twister (1989 film), a comedy film starring Suzy Amis and Crispin Glover
  • Twister (1996 film), a disaster film starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton
  • Twister (soundtrack), the music from the 1996 movie
  • Twister...Ride It Out, a ride in Universal Studios Florida based on the film
  • Twisters (film), the 2024 sequel to the 1996 film
  • The music was released as a soundtrack, Twisters: The Album, and as a score album, Twisters (score)
  • The Twisters (film), 2024 American action film, a mockbuster of Twisters by The Asylum
  • Template:Twister (franchise), the Wikipedia navbox about all of these
  • Twister roller coaster, a layout which tends to twist or interweave its track within itself several times
  • Twister (Knoebels Amusement Resort), a roller coaster in Elysburg, Pennsylvania
  • Twister (Lake Compounce), a roller coaster in Bristol and Southington, Connecticut
  • Twister (Gröna Lund), a roller coaster in Stockholm, Sweden
  • Twister III: Storm Chaser, a roller coaster at Elitch Gardens in Denver, Colorado
  • Twister (comics), a superhero character from Blue Bolt Comics and Project Superpowers
  • Twister (play), a 1999 play by Ken Kesey<!-- Twister (magic trick) redirects to Outline of stage illusion, which does not mention it -->

Games

  • Twister (game), "the game that ties you up in knots"
  • Twister (video game), AKA Mother of Charlotte, 1986 shoot 'em up

Music

Bands

  • Twister (band), Brazilian, pop rock
  • The Twisters (Canadian band), blues
  • Los Twisters, Chilean, rock 'n' roll
  • Joey and the Twisters, a predecessor to The Royal Teens

Albums

  • Twister (album), by Unrest, 1988
  • Twister (Watershed album), 1995
  • Twister, by Leisure (band), 2019

Songs

  • "Twister", on the 1988 "Weird Al" Yankovic album Even Worse
  • Twister (Mariah Carey song), on the 2001 soundtrack Glitter
  • "Twister", a 1993 single by Watershed (American band)

Television

  • Twister, a 2001 children's/animation show by Scottish Television, broadcast in the 2009 programming strand wknd@stv<!-- The previous description was "a CITV gameshow hosted by Nigel Mitchell", but neither CITV nor Nigel Mitchell mention this. -->
  • "Twister" (2011), episodes 17–19 of season 3 of Disney Channel series The Suite Life on Deck
  • Maurice "Twister" Rodriguez, one of the main characters in 1999–2004 Nickelodeon series Rocket Power
  • Mo Twister, the professional name of Mohan Gumatay, a Filipino American radio and television presenter (born 1977)

Food

  • Twister (ice cream), made by Unilever's Heartbrand
  • Twister (pastry), a cruller
  • Twisters (restaurant), a New Mexican restaurant chain

Sports

  • , a move in combat sports, similar to the guillotine in wrestling
  • Twister City Roller Derby (TCRD), a flat-track roller derby league based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • Twin City Twisters (TCT), an artistic gymnastics facility in Champlin, Minnesota

Teams

  • Massachusetts Twisters, an American indoor soccer team based in West Springfield, Massachusetts
  • Arkansas Twisters, an American indoor football team based in Little Rock, which eventually became the Texas Revolution
  • Indiana Twisters (originally Indianapolis Twisters), an American indoor soccer team
  • Pembina Valley Twisters, a Canadian junior ice hockey team based in Morris, Manitoba
  • Holzgerlingen Twister, an American football team from Holzgerlingen, Germany
  • Torrington Twisters, an American baseball team based in Torrington, Connecticut, which became the New Bedford Bay Sox

Technology

  • Twister (software), a decentralized P2P microblogging platform
  • Twister (Software from Brokat AG), a modular e-services framework
  • Mersenne Twister (MT), a pseudo-random number generator
  • Twister OS, a Linux-based operating system
  • Twister (microarchitecture), the CPU of the Apple A9
  • Ronja Twister, an electronics module for free space optic
  • Twister Telecom, a Mexican company
  • Twister supersonic separator, hydrocarbon processing system for the dehydration and dewpointing of natural gas

Transportation

  • Twister (yacht), a sailing keelboat
  • Honda CB Twister, a motorcycle

Aviation

  • Pipistrel Twister, a Slovenian ultralight trike
  • Silence Twister, a German homebuilt aircraft design
  • Wings of Change Twister, an Austrian paraglider design
  • Payne Knight Twister, an American aerobatic sport aircraft

Other uses

  • Twister (tree), a candidate for the oldest limber pine (Pinus flexilis) near the Alta Ski Area in Utah
  • Twister ribozyme, a catalytic RNA structure capable of self-cleavage
  • Twister, an occupation represented by the Amalgamated Association of Beamers, Twisters and Drawers (Hand and Machine)
  • Draw twister, a machine used to draw and twist large quantities of polymer fibers
  • Twister Falls, a waterfall in Hood River County, Oregon

See also

  • Twist (disambiguation)
  • Twistor theory
  • Twista (born 1973), American rapper
  • Anti-twister (disambiguation)
  • Mister Twister (disambiguation)
  • Ultra Twister (disambiguation)
  • Tongue twister
  • Troubletwisters (book series), a 2011 young adult fantasy series by Garth Nix and Sean Williams