Roller (disambiguation)

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Roller is a family of brightly coloured near passerine birds in the genera Coracias and Eurystomus.

Roller may also refer to:

Industry

• Roller (machine part), a cylindrical machine component or a component of a roller bearing, as seen in some airliners
• Roller (agricultural tool), an agricultural or gardening implement for leveling ground
• Road roller, a heavy machine used in construction of roads and foundations
  • Steamroller, either a synonym for or type of road roller
• Rolling (metalworking), a metal forming process in which metal stock is passed through a pair of cylindrical rolls, used in a steel mill
  • Hot rolling
  • Cold rolling
• Wheel, often trapped on an axle between two planes, on which a load can be carried and transported

Music

• The Rollers, rock band which evolved from the Bay City Rollers
• "The Roller", song from Beady Eye
• "Roller" (April Wine song), 1978
• Roller (album), an album by the Italian progressive rock band Goblin

Personal surname

• A. Clyde Roller (1914–2005), American conductor and music educator
• Kyle Roller (born 1988), baseball player
• Mihail Roller (1908–1958), Romanian communist politician

Mathematics, computing, and robotics

• Mathematical "roller", a curve of constant width
• Apache Roller, a blog server written in Java
• Roller (BEAM), a kind of robot that moves by rolling

Other uses

• Bicycle rollers, a type of bicycle trainer
• Hair roller, also known as hot roller, an implement used in hairdressing to curl hair
• Padded surcingle, used on horses for training and vaulting
• Paint roller, a type of rotating paintbrush
• Roller, autobot component of Optimus Prime
• Roller (pigeon), varieties of domestic pigeons that tumble or roll in flight
• Roller (Transformers), a fictional character
• Rollerball pens (or roller pens), a type of writing instrument
• Rollers, light bars specifically and, by extension, a police car
• Rollers, nickname for the Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team
• Rolls-Royce, nickname for the motor car brand

See also

• Roll (disambiguation)
• Drum roll