title: Switchback
text: # Switchback
  
  Switchback may refer to:
  
  ## Transportation
  
  * A hairpin turn on a road
  * A horseshoe curve
  * A zigzagging pedestrian or cycling ramp
  * A roller coaster, or a roller coaster-like road
  * A zig zag (railway)
  * The Switchback, a former railway line in Glasgow, Scotland
  * A motorcycle having detachable windscreens and luggage bags, e.g. Harley-Davidson's Dyna 2012 model
  
  ## Entertainment
  
  * Switchback Railway, the first roller coaster designed as an amusement ride in the United States
  * Switchback (rollercoaster), a wooden roller coaster located at ZDT's Amusement Park
  * Switchback (band), a duo which plays Americana music
  * Switchback (TV series), a Canadian television show for children and teens broadcast on the CBC in the 1980s
  * Switchback (comics), a Marvel Comics character connected to the X-Men
  * Switchback (film), a 1997 film starring Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover
  * "Switchback" (Celldweller song), a song from Celldweller's album Celldweller
  * "Switchback" (Music for Pleasure song), a song from Music for Pleasure's album Into the Rain
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Switchback, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
  * In asymptotic analysis (mathematics), a term of intermediate order multiplying a homogenous solution (forced by matching to an outer solution)
  * Magnetic switchback, a sudden reversal in the magnetic field of the solar wind observed on the Sun
  