Spin

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Spin or spinning may refer to:

• Wheelspin, spinning the wheels of a vehicle in place
• Spin (propaganda), a heavily biased portrayal of an event or situation
• Spinning (cycling) or indoor cycling, a form of exercise
• Spins, a state of dizziness and disorientation due to intoxication ("the spins")
• Hand spinning, textile art to create yarn by hand

Mathematics, science and technology

• Electron magnetic moment, the magnetic moment of an electron caused by its intrinsic property of spin
• Rotation or spin, a movement of an object in a circular motion
• Spin (aerodynamics), autorotation of an aerodynamically stalled aeroplane
• SPIN bibliographic database, an indexing and abstracting service focusing on physics research
• Spin group, in mathematics, a particular double cover of the special orthogonal group SO(n)
• Spin (physics) or particle spin, a fundamental property of elementary particles
• Spin tensor, a tensor quantity for describing spinning motion in special relativity and general relativity,
• Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thread by twisting fibers together
• Spinning (polymers), a process for creating polymer fibres
• SPIN (operating system)

Sports

• Spin bowling, a type of bowling technique in cricket
• Figure skating spins, a number of different skating moves
• Spinning, a vertical-axis style of delivery in ten-pin bowling

Publications

• Spin (novel), a 2005 novel by Robert Charles Wilson
• Spin (magazine), an American music magazine
• Spinning (comics), a 2017 graphic novel memoir by Tillie Walden
• Spin, a 2004 novel by Martin Sixsmith

Film

• Spin (1995 film), a documentary film
• Spin (2003 film), a film by James Redford
• Spin (2007 film), a film by Henry Pincus
• Spin, a 2010 short film by Max Hattler
• SPiN (2015 film), a short film directed by Noah Workman and written by Wilson Cleveland

Television

• Spin (TV series) or Les Hommes de l'ombre, a 2012 French political drama series
• "Spin" (Charlie Jade), an episode of Charlie Jade
• "Spin" (House), a 2005 episode of House
• Spin, a character on Really Wild Animals

Music

• Spin (radio), a single play of a song
• SPiN (band), an American rock band
• Spin (Maltese band), an industrial band

Brands

• SPiN, a chain of table tennis lounges
• Spin (company), an American dock-less bike-sharing system
• SPIN (cable system) or South Pacific Island Network
• Chevrolet Spin, a mini multi-purpose vehicle
• Fokker Spin, an aeroplane built by Anthony Fokker

Computing

• SPIN (operating system), a Mach-like OS written in Modula-3
• Spin (programming language), a high-level programming language
• SPIN (software process), a Software Process Improvement Network
• SPIN model checker, a tool for formal verification of distributed software systems
• Spinning, another name for busy waiting

Other uses

• Spin (b-boy move)
• Spinning (IPO), a form of financial bribery used by brokerages to gain corporate business
• Social Phobia Inventory or SPIN, a psychological test of social anxiety disorder

See also

• Article spinning, the SEO (search engine optimization) approach of using equivalent phrases to rewrite articles
• Busy spin, a technique in which a process continually checks whether a condition is true
• Flat spin (disambiguation)
• Metal spinning, the process of forming metal over a mandrel while rotating on a lathe
• Pen spinning, the art of spinning pens using one's fingers
• Poi spinning, a form of juggling
• Road agent's spin or "Curly Bill spin", a gunfighting maneuver utilized as a ruse when forced to surrender a side arm to an unfriendly party
• Spinnerbait
• Sufi spinning, a twirling meditation (a religious practice in which worshippers spin in circles)
• Twirling