A Zigzag is a jagged, regular pattern.

Zigzag, ZigZag, zig zag or zig-zag may also refer to:

Film and television

  • Zigzag (1963 film)
  • Zig Zag (1970 film), a film by Richard A. Colla
  • Zig Zag (2002 film), a film by David S. Goyer
  • Zig Zag (Canadian TV series)
  • Zig Zag, an educational TV series on BBC Schools
  • Zigzag, a character in The Thief and the Cobbler
  • "Zig Zag", an episode of The Outer Limits, season 6

Music and theatre

  • Zig-Zag!, a 1917 musical revue
  • Zig Zag (The Hooters album) (1989)
  • Zig Zag (Tha Mexakinz album) (1994)
  • Zig Zag, a 2003 album by Earl Slick
  • Zig Zags, a heavy metal/punk rock band
  • Shintenchi Kaibyaku Shudan: Zigzag, a japanese visual-kei band

Culture

  • ZigZag (magazine), a UK rock music magazine
  • Zig Zag (manga), a cartoon series by Yuki Nakaji
  • Zigzag (surfing magazine)

Computer science

  • ZigZag (software), a data model designed and patented by Ted Nelson
  • Zig-zag product, a method for constructing graphs in computational complexity
  • Zig-Zag, a tree-rotation variant used to balance splay trees
  • Zig-zag entropy coding, a method used in JPEG images to compress data
  • ZigZag encoding, a mapping of the signed integers to unsigned integers that shortens variable-length quantity representations of negative integers

Geography

  • Zig Zag Pass, site of the Struggle on Zig Zag Pass in the Philippines during World War II
  • Zigzag, Oregon
  • Zigzag Glacier
  • Zigzag Ranger Station
  • Zigzag River and Little Zigzag River
  • Zigzag Bluff in Antarctica
  • Zigzag Island off the coast of Antarctica
  • Zigzag Pass on the island of South Georgia

Mathematics and cryptography

  • Boustrophedon transform, a zigzag reordering
  • Fence (mathematics) or zigzag poset, a partially ordered set
  • Isbell's zigzag theorem
  • Zig-zag lemma, a mathematical lemma in homological algebra
  • Zigzag cipher, a type of cipher, or code

Railroads

  • Zig zag (railway), a construction technique railroads use to climb hills; also called a switchback
  • Lapstone Zig Zag, a walking track on the line of an abandoned railway
  • Zig Zag Railway, a heritage railway near Lithgow
  • Zig Zag railway station, a railway station on the CityRail network near Lithgow, New South Wales
  • Kalamunda Zig Zag in Western Australia
  • Perry Bridge or Zig Zag Bridge, a 1711 bridge over River Tame in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England

Revolvers

  • Mauser Zig-Zag, a 19th-century revolver
  • Zig zag revolver, a 3D-printed revolver developed in Japan

Architecture

  • Zig-Zag Chair, designed by Gerrit Rietveld
  • Zig-zag moulding on Norman arches
  • Zigzag Moderne, a style and feature of Art Deco architecture

Animals

  • Phasianella zigzag, a species of sea snail
  • Northern zigzag salamander
  • Ozark zigzag salamander
  • Southern zigzag salamander
  • Zigzag barb, a ray-finned fish
  • Zigzag heron, a bird
  • Zigzagiceras, an extinct cephalopod genus
  • Zig zag (lizard), a species of reptile

Other uses

  • Boustrophedon, writing in alternating directions
  • Zig Zag (1984 video game), a video game by DK'Tronics
  • Zig Zag (1987 video game), a video game by Mirrorsoft
  • Zig-Zag (company), a tobacco products company
  • Zig-zag bridge, a type of pedestrian walkway
  • USS Zigzag (SP-106), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919
  • Agent Zigzag, code name of Eddie Chapman, a British double agent
  • Zig-zag in-line package, a short-lived packaging technology for integrated circuits
  • Zigzag transformer, an engineering device for electrical systems
  • ZigZag, a ticketing scheme in Derbyshire, UK, by bus operator Trent Barton
  • Zig Zag Girl, a stage magic illusion
  • The zigzag model of plant-pathogen co-evolution by Jonathan D. G. Jones and Jeffery Dangl
  • Isbell's zigzag theorem

See also

  • Zag (disambiguation)
  • Zig (disambiguation)
  • Zig and Zag (disambiguation)
  • Zik Zak Filmworks