Cyclone (disambiguation) explained

A cyclone is an area of closed, circular fluid motion characterized by inwardly spiraling winds.

Cyclone may also refer to:

Places

• Cyclone, Indiana, an unincorporated community
• Cyclone, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Cyclone, Missouri, an unincorporated community
• Cyclone, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Cyclone, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Cyclone Lake, a lake in Utah

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Cyclone (DC Comics), a Justice Society of America heroine
• Cyclone (Marvel Comics), a fictional Spider-Man villain
• Cyclone, a type of transformable powered armor for infantry in the Robotech universe
• The Cyclone, a fictional motorcycle used by Kamen Rider 1

Films

• The Cyclone (1920 film), an American drama film by Clifford Smith
• Cyclone (1978 film), a film starring Arthur Kennedy and Carroll Baker
• Cyclone (1987 film), a science fiction film featuring Heather Thomas, Jeffrey Combs and Martin Landau
• The Cyclone (1996 film), an Italian film

Games

• Cyclone (pinball), a 1988 pinball game by Williams
• Cyclone (video game), a 1985 computer game for the ZX Spectrum
• CyClones, a video game by Raven Software

Music

Albums

• Cyclone (Tangerine Dream album)
• Cyclone (Baby Bash album) (2007)

Songs

• "Cyclone" (song), a 2007 song by Baby Bash
• "Cyclone", a 2009 song by Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers from Levitate
• "Cyclone", a song by Dub Pistols
• "Cyclone", a song by 12012
• "Cyclone", a song by StillWell
• "Cyclone", a song by Pinegrove from 11:11 (2022)

Other music

• Fender Cyclone, an electric guitar
• The Cyclones, a New York City rock and roll band in the late 1970s and early 1980s

Other arts, entertainment, and media

• Cyclone!, a 1985 Australian superhero anthology comic book

Computing and technology

• Cyclone (programming language), a dialect of C
• Cyclone (separator), a cylinder used for cyclonic separation
• Cyclone (computer), an early vacuum tube computer
• Cyclone, a family of field-programmable gate arrays from Altera, now part of Intel's Programmable Solutions Group
• ACA Cyclone, a civil defense siren

Military and related areas

• 38th Infantry Division (United States), nicknamed Cyclone
• Caudron C.714 Cyclone, an unsuccessful French fighter aircraft which saw some use early in World War II
• French ship Cyclone, one of several French navy ships named Cyclone
• Operation Cyclone, a CIA program to arm and finance Afghan mujahideen (1979–1989)
• Operation Cyclone, the Allied World War II assault on the Pacific island of Noemfoor, part of the Battle of Noemfoor
• Sikorsky CH-148 Cyclone, Canadian Forces Air Command designation for the Sikorsky H-92 Superhawk helicopter
• USS Cyclone (PC-1), a United States Navy coastal patrol ship
  • Cyclone-class patrol ship
• Cyclone (rifle), one of three models manufactured by British company Steel Core Designs

Roller coasters

• Cyclone (Dreamworld), a roller coaster at Dreamworld, Queensland, Australia
• Cyclone (Lakeside Amusement Park), a wooden roller coaster at Lakeside Amusement Park in Denver, Colorado
• Cyclone (Palisades Amusement Park), a pair of roller coasters that formerly operated at Palisades Amusement Park in Bergen County, New Jersey
• Cyclone (Revere Beach), a roller coaster formerly at Revere Beach in Revere, Massachusetts
• Cyclone, a roller coaster formerly at Geauga Lake, Aurora, Ohio
• Cyclone, a roller coaster formerly at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio
• Carolina Cyclone, a roller coaster at Carowinds near Charlotte, North Carolina
• Coney Island Cyclone, a roller coaster in Coney Island, New York
• Crystal Beach Cyclone, a roller coaster at Crystal Beach, Ontario, Canada
• Cyclone Coaster, a roller coaster at Sandspit Entertainment Cavendish Beach in Cavendish, Prince Edward Island, Canada
• Cyclone Racer, a twin track roller coaster at The Pike, Long Beach, California
• Giant Cyclone Safety Coasters, a model line of steel-framed wood roller coasters designed by Harry Traver
• Sesquicentennial Cyclone, a roller coaster formerly operated at the 1926 Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition as well as other locations
• Texas Cyclone, a former roller coaster at the defunct Six Flags Astroworld, Houston, Texas
• Twisted Cyclone, a roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia
• Wicked Cyclone, a roller coaster at Six Flags New England in Agawam, Massachusetts

Sports teams

Australia

• Cairns Cyclones, an Australian former rugby league club (1996–2000)
• Queensland Cyclones, a broomball team

Canada

• Cypress Cyclones, a Junior ice hockey franchise from Maple Creek, Saskatchewan
• Listowel Cyclones, a Junior ice hockey team based in Listowel, Ontario
• Tamworth Cyclones, a former Junior ice hockey team based in Tamworth, Ontario

United States

• Brooklyn Cyclones, a minor league baseball team
• Cincinnati Cyclones, a minor league hockey team
• Connecticut Cyclones, a team of the Women's Football Alliance
• H-Town Texas Cyclones, a former Independent Women's Football League team based in Houston, Texas
• Iowa State Cyclones, the Iowa State University sports teams
• Jacksonville Cyclones, a defunct American soccer team
• Twin City Cyclones, a former minor league ice hockey team based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Elsewhere

• Cyclones of Chittagong, a Bangladeshi cricket team
• Zhejiang Cyclones or Zhejiang Golden Bulls, a Chinese Basketball Association team

Transportation

Air

• St-Just Cyclone, a Canadian kit aircraft
• Wright Cyclone series, a family of piston engines for aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s

Land

• Cyclone (motorcycle), manufactured from 1912 through 1917
• Buell M2 Cyclone, a model of Buell Motorcycle Company motorcycle produced from 1997 to 2003
• Cadillac Cyclone, a 1959 concept car designed by Harley Earl
• Ford Cyclone engine, the codename of the Duratec 35
• Mercury Cyclone, a former mid-size muscle car
• Raleigh Cyclone, a model of mountain bike

Sea

• Capri Cyclone, an American sailing dinghy design

Other uses

• Cyclone fence, a type of wire-mesh fence
• Cyclone (nickname)
• Tetraphenylcyclopentadienone, an organic chemical

See also

• GMC Syclone, a high-performance version of the GMC Sonoma pickup truck
• Psyclone (roller coaster), a former roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain, Valencia, Santa Clarita, California
• Tsyklon, a Ukrainian expendable space rocket