boomerang A boomerang () is a thrown tool, typically constructed with aerofoil sections and designed to spin about an axis perpendicular to the direction of its flight. A returning boomerang is designed to return to the thrower, while a non-returning ...

is a curved wooden throwing implement. Boomerang may also refer to:

Aircraft

CAC Boomerang The CAC Boomerang is a fighter aircraft designed and manufactured in Australia by the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation between 1942 and 1945. Approved for production shortly following the Empire of Japan's entry into the Second World War, t ...

, an Australian-designed and built fighter aircraft in World War 2 * Fisher Boomerang, a US-designed and built ultralight aircraft * Gin Boomerang, a South Korean paraglider design * Scaled Composites Boomerang, an unconventional twin engine aircraft designed by Burt Rutan * Schneider ES-60 ''Boomerang'', an Australian-designed and built glider * Whitney Boomerang, an Australian-designed and built training aircraft * ''Boomerang'', a

de Havilland DH.88 Comet The de Havilland DH.88 Comet is a British two-seat, twin-engined aircraft built by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. It was developed specifically to participate in the 1934 England-Australia MacRobertson Air Race from the United Kingdom to ...

aircraft

Entertainment

Comics

Boomerang (comics) Boomerang (Frederick "Fred" Myers) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. He has been a member of several prominent supervillain teams and clashed with several heroes throughout his career, most no ...

, a Marvel Comics supervillain *

Captain Boomerang Captain Boomerang is the name of two supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, who respectively serve as enemies to both the Flash (Barry Allen), Barry Allen and Wally West versions of the Flash (DC Comics character) ...

, a DC Comics supervillain and enemy of the Flash

Films

* ''The Boomerang'' (1919 film), an American drama directed by Bertram Bracken * The Boomerang (1925 film), an American comedy drama film directed by Louis J. Gasnier * ''Boomerang'' (1934 film), a British drama directed by Arthur Maude * ''Boomerang!'' (1947 film), by Elia Kazan * ''Boomerang'' (1966 film), about Polish-German love after World War II (also known as ''Bumerang''), starring

Tony Ferrer Antonio D. Laxa (June 12, 1934 – January 23, 2021), better known by his stage name Tony Ferrer, was a Filipino actor, film director and producer. He was tagged as the James Bond of the Philippines for his films in which he played a spy named To ...

* ''Boomerang'' (1976 film), a French-Italian crime film * ''Boomerang'' (1992 film), starring Eddie Murphy * ''Boomerang'' (2001 film), a Serbian film * ''Boomerang'' (2013 film), an American TV film starring Felicity Huffman * ''Boomerang'' (2015 film), a French film * ''Boomerang'' (2019 film), a Tamil film * Boomerang (2023 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film

Television

* ''Boomerang'' (Australian TV program), a 1961–1962 Australian television discussion program broadcast on GTV-9 in Melbourne * Boomerang (TV network), a TV channel operated by Cartoon Network with various international versions: **

Boomerang (Asian TV channel) Boomerang is a pan-Asian cable and satellite television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division. Like the original US version, this localization first began as a programming block that aired on Cartoon Networ ...

Boomerang (Australian TV channel) Boomerang is an Australian pay television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division. It is a sister service of Cartoon Network. History and branding The Australian feed of the Boomerang Asia service was launche ...

Boomerang (British and Irish TV channel) Boomerang is a 24-hour British pay television channel which primarily features classic and modern animated series from Hanna-Barbera and Warner Bros. Animation. The channel launched on 27 May 2000 as a spin-off of Cartoon Network and localizat ...

Boomerang (Canadian TV channel) Boomerang is a Canadian English language discretionary specialty channel owned by Corus Entertainment. It is a licensed version of the U.S. channel of the same name, which primarily broadcasts animated programming from the Warner Bros. Anim ...

** Boomerang (Central and Eastern Europe TV channel) ** Boomerang (Middle East and Africa TV channel) ** Boomerang (French TV channel) ** Boomerang (German TV channel), former TV channel **

Boomerang (Italian TV channel) ''For the original Boomerang channel, see Boomerang (TV network).'' ''For Boomerang in other countries, see Boomerang around the world.'' Boomerang is an Italian television channel launched in 2003, which airs mostly modern cartoons aimed at pre ...

Boomerang (Latin American TV channel) Boomerang was a 24-hour cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery under its International division. It was a localization of the original United States channel initially launched in 2001 and primarily carried classic Warner B ...

** Boomerang (Scandinavian TV channel) ** Boomerang (Portuguese TV channel) ** Boomerang (South Korean TV channel) ** Boomerang (Spanish TV channel), former TV channel ** Boomerang (Taiwan) **

Boomerang (Turkish TV channel) Boomerang is a Turkish-language children's television channel broadcasting to Turkey. History On 13 April 2016, Turner Broadcasting System Europe announced the launch of Boomerang in Turkey on 23 April 2016, which is Turkey's National Childre ...

* ''Boomerang'' (American TV series), an American comedy television series from BET * ''Boomerang'', a Seattle-area kids' TV show hosted by

Marni Nixon Margaret Nixon McEathron (February 22, 1930 – July 24, 2016), known professionally as Marni Nixon, was an American soprano and ghost singer for featured actresses in musical films. She is now recognized as the singing voice of leading a ...

Other

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The Boomerang ''The Boomerang'' was a weekly newspaper published in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. History The newspaper was established by William Lane in 1887, publishing its first issue on 19 November 1887. James Drake, future Attorney-General of A ...

'' (1887–1892), newspaper in Brisbane, Australia *''Boomerang'' (1894), weekly magazine published in Melbourne by

Edward Findley Edward Findley (8 September 1864 – 26 October 1947) was an Australian politician and publisher. He served as a Senator for Victoria from 1904 to 1917 and from 1923 to 1929, representing the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He was also a member o ...

*'' Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World'', a 2011 nonfiction book by Michael Lewis * ''Boomerang!'' (audio magazine), an audio magazine for kids * ''Boomerang'', an arcade game also known as '' Ikki'' * ''

Laramie Boomerang The ''Laramie Boomerang'', formerly the ''Laramie Daily Boomerang'', is a newspaper in Laramie, Wyoming, USA. History The newspaper was established in March 1881 by American humorist Edgar Wilson ("Bill") Nye, who named the paper after his mule ...

'', a daily newspaper in Laramie, Wyoming

Music

Albums

* ''Boomerang'' (Betty Boo album), 2022 * ''Boomerang'' (The Creatures album), 1989 * ''Boomerang'' (Daara J album), 2003 * ''Boomerang'' (Hanson album), 2005 * ''Boomerang'' (Mad at the World album), 1991 * ''Boomerang'' (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the 1992 film * ''Boomerang'' (Stacey Q album), 1997

Songs

* "Boomerang" (Barenaked Ladies song), 2013 * "Boomerang" (Lali Espósito song), 2016 * "Boomerang" (DJ Felli Fel song), 2011 * "Boomerang" (The Grace song), 2006 * "Boomerang" (Nicole Scherzinger song), 2013 * "Boomerang" (JoJo Siwa song), 2016 * "Boomerang" (Wanna One song), 2018 *"Boomerang", by Big Pun from ''

Capital Punishment Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is the state-sanctioned practice of deliberately killing a person as a punishment for an actual or supposed crime, usually following an authorized, rule-governed process to conclude that t ...

'' *"Boomerang", by Exo from '' The War: The Power of Music'' *"Boomerang", by Jana Kramer from '' Thirty One'' *"Boomerang", by Kiss from '' Hot in the Shade'' *"Boomerang", by Kix from '' Blow My Fuse'' *"Boomerang", by Plain White T's from '' Wonders of the Younger'' *"Boomerang", by Pigeon John in collaboration with

20syl Sylvain Richard (born 17 February 1979), better known by his stage name 20syl (pronounced "vain-seel", ), is a French rapper, disc jockey and producer. He is a composer and MC in the group Hocus Pocus, member of beatmaker collective of DJs C2 ...

*"Boomerang", by Relient K from ''

Collapsible Lung ''Collapsible Lung'' is the seventh studio album by American rock band Relient K. To date, it is their only album not to be produced or co-produced by Mark Lee Townsend. Background and production In May 2012, the group posted that they were wor ...

'' *"Boomerang", a single by

Kim Petras Kim Petras (born 27 August 1992) is a German singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, California. Between 2016 and 2020, she released music as an independent artist under her own imprint, BunHead Records, before signing with Amigo and Repub ...

Science

BOOMERanG experiment In astronomy and observational cosmology, the BOOMERanG experiment (Balloon Observations Of Millimetric Extragalactic Radiation And Geophysics) was an experiment which measured the cosmic microwave background radiation of a part of the sky during ...

, a sub-orbital experiment which studied the properties of cosmic microwave background radiation *

Boomerang Nebula The Boomerang Nebula is a protoplanetary nebula located 5,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It is also known as the Bow Tie Nebula and catalogued as LEDA 3074547. The nebula's temperature is measured at making i ...

, a nebula in Centaurus

Ships

* HMS ''Boomerang'' (1889) * ''Boomerang'' (schooner), an operational 1903 schooner, part of the Sydney Heritage Fleet

Roller coasters

Boomerang (roller coaster) Boomerang is a model of roller coaster manufactured and designed by Vekoma, a Dutch manufacturer. The roller coaster model name is from the hunting implement based on the traditions of the Indigenous Australians. there are 55 Boomerangs o ...

* Boomerang (Six Flags México) * Boomerang (Six Flags St. Louis) * Boomerang (Worlds of Fun)

Technology

Boomerang (countermeasure) Boomerang is a gunfire locator developed by DARPA and BBN Technologies primarily for use against snipers. Boomerang is mounted on mobile vehicles such as the Humvee, Stryker, and MRAP combat vehicles. There were plans to integrate it into the ...

, a gunfire locator * Boomerang (programming language) * Boomerang, an Instagram app * Maserati Boomerang, an automobile * A controller for the

PlayStation 3 The PlayStation 3 (PS3) is a home video game console developed by Sony Computer Entertainment. The successor to the PlayStation 2, it is part of the PlayStation brand of consoles. It was first released on November 11, 2006, in Japan, November ...

games console

Other uses

* Boomerang (cocktail), made with rye whiskey and Swedish Punsch *

Boomerang (horse) Boomerang, later Carroll's Boomerang, was an Irish Sport Horse who stood 16.2 hh (168 cm), ridden in show jumping competitions, most successfully by Eddie Macken. Boomerang was also ridden by Liz Edgar (Broome), Johan Heins and Paul Sc ...

(1966–1983), show jumping horse * Boomerang, Elizabeth Bay, a historic house in Australia * ''

'', a weekly Australian newspaper published from 1887 to 1892 *

Boomerang Festival The Byron Bay Bluesfest, formerly the East Coast International Blues & Roots Music Festival, is an annual Australian music festival that has been held over the Easter long weekend in the Byron Bay, New South Wales, area since 1990. The festiva ...

, part of Byron Bay Bluesfest, an Australian music festival *

Color magazine (lighting) A color magazine is a fixture attached to a follow spot that places different color filters in the path of the beam. Instead of working with comparatively cumbersome gel frames, the color magazine allows the spot operator to easily slide color fra ...

, also called a boomerang, used to change the colors of a spotlight *

Flying Boomerangs The Flying Boomerangs are the underage Indigenous Australian Australian rules football team for men (the underage women's team is known as the ''Woomeras''). The team has played tests against junior teams from Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Ne ...

, an Australian rules football team * Boomerang Range, a narrow mountain range on the western side of the Skelton Glacier and Skelton Névé, Antarctica