Spin or spinning most often refers to: *

Spin (physics) Spin is an Intrinsic and extrinsic properties, intrinsic form of angular momentum carried by elementary particles, and thus by List of particles#Composite particles, composite particles such as hadrons, atomic nucleus, atomic nuclei, and atoms. S ...

or particle spin, a fundamental property of elementary particles *

Spin quantum number In physics and chemistry, the spin quantum number is a quantum number (designated ) that describes the intrinsic angular momentum (or spin angular momentum, or simply ''spin'') of an electron or other particle. It has the same value for all ...

, a number which defines the value of a particle's spin *

Spinning (textiles) Spinning is a twisting technique to form yarn from fibers. The fiber intended is drawn out, twisted, and wound onto a bobbin. A few popular fibers that are spun into yarn other than cotton, which is the most popular, are viscose (the most common ...

, the creation of yarn or thread by twisting fibers together, traditionally by

hand spinning Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. After the introduction o ...

Spin (geometry) Spin or spinning most often refers to: * Spin (physics) or particle spin, a fundamental property of elementary particles * Spin quantum number, a number which defines the value of a particle's spin * Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thr ...

, the rotation of an object around an internal axis *

Spin (propaganda) In public relations and politics, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through knowingly providing a biased interpretation of an event. While traditional public relations and advertising may manage their presentation of facts, "spin" often i ...

, an intentionally biased portrayal of something Spin, spinning or spinnin may also refer to:

Physics and mathematics

Spin group In mathematics the spin group, denoted Spin(''n''), page 15 is a Lie group whose underlying manifold is the double cover of the special orthogonal group , such that there exists a short exact sequence of Lie groups (when ) :1 \to \mathbb_2 \to \o ...

, Spin(''n''), a particular double cover of the special orthogonal group SO(''n'') ** the corresponding spin algebra,

\mathfrak(n)

* Spin tensor, a tensor quantity for describing spinning motion in special relativity and general relativity *

Spin (aerodynamics) In flight dynamics (fixed-wing aircraft), flight dynamics a spin is a special category of Stall (fluid dynamics), stall resulting in Autorotation (fixed-wing aircraft), autorotation (uncommanded roll) about the aircraft's longitudinal axis and ...

, autorotation of an aerodynamically stalled aeroplane * SPIN bibliographic database, an indexing and abstracting service focusing on physics research

Textile arts

Spinning (polymers) Spinning is a manufacturing process for creating polymer fibers. It is a specialized form of extrusion that uses a spinneret to form multiple continuous filaments.. Melt spinning If the polymer is a thermoplastic then it can undergo melt spinni ...

, a process for creating polymer fibres **

Hand spinning Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibres are drawn out and twisted together to form yarn. For thousands of years, fibre was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. After the introduction o ...

, textile art to create yarn by hand

Sports

* Spin imparted on a ball in sports such as; **

Cue sports Cue sports are a wide variety of Game of skill, games of skill played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a Baize, cloth-covered billiards table, table bounded by elastic bumpers known a ...

Pickleball Pickleball is a racket or paddle sport in which two or four players use a smooth-faced paddle to hit a perforated, hollow plastic ball over a net until one side is unable to return the ball or commits a rule infraction. Pickleball is played i ...

Table tennis Table tennis (also known as ping-pong) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the Tennis court, court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of ...

Tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...

Indoor cycling Indoor cycling, often called spinning, is a form of exercise with classes focusing on endurance, strength, intervals, high intensity (race days) and recovery, and involves using a special stationary exercise bicycle with a weighted flywheel in a c ...

, often called spinning, a form of exercise **

Spinning (cycling) Spinning is a brand of Indoor cycling, indoor bicycles and indoor cycling instruction classes distributed and licensed by the American health and fitness company Mad Dogg Athletics. Launched in 1993, the brand has become a popular term for indoor ...

, an indoor cycling brand * Spinning (motorsport), a South African motorsport *

Figure skating spins Spins are an element in figure skating in which the skater rotates, centered on a single point on the ice, while holding one or more body positions. They are performed by all disciplines of the sport, single skating, pair skating, and ice dance, ...

, a number of different skating moves *

Poi spinning Poi is a performing art and also the name of the equipment used for its performance. As a skill toy, poi is an object or theatrical prop used for dexterity play or an object manipulation. As a performance art, poi involves swinging tethered w ...

, a form of juggling *

Spin bowling Spin bowling is a bowling (cricket), bowling technique in cricket, in which the ball is Delivery (cricket), delivered relatively slowly but with rapid rotation, giving it the potential to deviate sharply after bouncing. A bowler who uses this t ...

, a type of bowling technique in cricket *

Spin fishing Spin fishing is an angling technique where a spinnerbait, a type of hybrid fishing lure with at least one freely rotating blade, is used to entice the fish to bite. When the line is reeled back, the spinnerbait blades will spin passively with the ...

Pen spinning Pen spinning is a form of object manipulation that involves the Dexterity, deft manipulation of a writing instrument with hands. Although it is often considered a form of self-entertainment (usually in a school or office setting), multinational c ...

* Spinning, a vertical-axis style of delivery in

ten-pin bowling Tenpin bowling is a type of bowling in which a bowler bowling form, rolls a bowling ball down a wood or synthetic lane toward ten pins positioned Tetractys, evenly in four rows in an equilateral triangle. The goal is to knock down all ten Bowlin ...

Technology

Metal spinning Metal spinning, also known as spin forming or spinning or metal turning most commonly, is a metalworking process by which a disc or tube of metal is rotated at high speed and formed into an axially symmetric part. Spinning can be performed by ha ...

, the process of forming metal over a mandrel while rotating on a lathe *

Chevrolet Spin The Chevrolet Spin is a mini MPV produced by General Motors under the Chevrolet marque. Developed by General Motors do Brasil, GM do Brasil, the vehicle replaced the Chevrolet Meriva, Meriva and Chevrolet Zafira, Zafira in South America with an o ...

, a mini multi-purpose vehicle *

Fokker Spin The Fokker ''Spin'' was the first airplane built by Dutch aviation pioneer Anthony Fokker. The many bracing wires used to strengthen the aircraft made it resemble a giant spider, hence its name ''Spin'', Dutch for "spider". History Fokker built ...

, an aeroplane built by Anthony Fokker

Computing

SPIN model checker SPIN is a general tool for verifying the correctness of concurrent software models in a rigorous and mostly automated fashion. It was written by Gerard J. Holzmann and others in the original Unix group of the Computing Sciences Research Center ...

Gerard Holzmann Gerard J. Holzmann (born 1951) is a Dutch-American computer scientist and researcher at Bell Labs and NASA, best known as the developer of the SPIN model checker. Early life and education Holzmann was born in Amsterdam, Netherlands and receiv ...

's tool for formal verification of distributed software systems *

SPIN (operating system) The SPIN operating system is a research project implemented in the computer programming language Modula-3, and is an open source project. It is designed with three goals: Flexibility (engineering), flexibility, Defensive programming, safety, and Co ...

, a Mach-like OS written in Modula-3 *

Spin (programming language) The Parallax P8X32A Propeller is a multi-core processor parallel computer architecture microcontroller chip with eight 32-bit reduced instruction set computer (RISC) central processing unit (CPU) cores. Introduced in 2006, it is designed and so ...

, a high-level programming language * SPIN (software process), a Software Process Improvement Network * Busy waiting or spinning

Books and publications

* ''Spin'' (magazine), an American music website and print magazine, 1985–present * ''Spin'' (novel), a 2005 novel by Robert Charles Wilson * ''Spinning'' (comics), a 2017 graphic novel memoir by Tillie Walden * ''Spin'', a 2004 novel by Martin Sixsmith * Spin (DC Comics), a fictional villain from DC Comics *

Steel Ball Run (stylized in all caps when written in Latin script) is the seventh main story arc of the Japanese manga series ''JoJo's Bizarre Adventure'', written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. Set in the United States in 1890, it follows the journey ...

, a character in the series named Gyro Zeppeli Uses Steel Balls as his weapon,Those Steel Balls are using the method of Spin and

Rotational energy Rotational energy or angular kinetic energy is kinetic energy due to the rotation of an object and is part of its total kinetic energy. Looking at rotational energy separately around an object's axis of rotation, the following dependence on the ob ...

to attack

Businesses

* SPIN (cable system) or South Pacific Island Network *

Spin (company) Spin is an electric bicycle-sharing and scooter-sharing system, electric scooter-sharing company. It is based in San Francisco and was founded as a start-up in 2017, launching as a dockless bicycle-sharing system controlled by a mobile app for res ...

, an American scooter-sharing system *

SPiN Spin or spinning most often refers to: * Spin (physics) or particle spin, a fundamental property of elementary particles * Spin quantum number, a number which defines the value of a particle's spin * Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thr ...

, a chain of table tennis lounges

Film and TV

Films

* ''Spin'' (1995 film), a documentary film * ''Spin'' (2003 film), a film by James Redford * ''Spin'', a 2010 short film by

Max Hattler Max Hattler is a German video artist and experimental filmmaker. He created the kaleidoscopic political short films "Collision" (2005) and "Spin" (2010), abstract stop motion works "Shift" (2012) and "AANAATT" (2008), and psychedelic animatio ...

* ''Spin'' (2015 film), a short film directed by Noah Workman and written by Wilson Cleveland * ''Spin'' (2021 film), a film starring Avantika Vandanapu and directed by Manjari Makijany

Television

* ''Spin'' (TV series) or ', a 2012 French political drama series * "Spin" (''Charlie Jade''), a 2005 episode of the science fiction television program ''Charlie Jade'' * "Spin" (''House''), a 2005 episode of the American medical drama television series ''House'' * Spin, an anthropomorphic globe character that narrates the '' Really Wild Animals'' television series, 1993–1996 * Spin City, a 1996–2002 American sitcom television *

Miles Morales Spider-Man (Miles Gonzalo MoralesAhmed, Saladin (w), Garrón, Javier (a). ''Miles Morales: Spider-Man'' #1 (2018) Marvel Comics (New York). ) is a superhero and the third predominant Spider-Man to appear in American comic books published by M ...

, also known as Spin in the 2021 television series ''Spidey and His Amazing Friends''

Music

Spin (radio) In broadcasting, rotation is the repeated airing of a limited playlist of songs on a radio station or satellite radio channel, or music videos on a TV network. They are usually in a different order each time. However, they are not completely s ...

, a single play of a song * Spinnin' Records, a Dutch electronic music label

Groups

* SPiN (band), an American alternative rock / power pop band * Sp!n, a British rock band * Spin, a Dutch funk band, an offshoot of

Ekseption Ekseption was a Dutch rock band active from 1967 to 1989, playing mostly-instrumental progressive rock and Classical crossover, classical rock. The central character in the changing roster, and the only band member present on every album, was con ...

Albums

* ''Spin'' (Darren Hayes album), 2002 * ''Spin'' (Tigers Jaw album), 2017 * ''Spin'', a 1976 album by Spin, an offshoot band of Ekseption * ''Spin'', a 1985 album by Scullion * ''Spin'', a 2001 album by Eric Roche * ''The Spin'', a 1989 album by Yellowjackets

Songs

* "Spin" (song), a 2002 song by Lifehouse * "Spin", a song by Trey Anastasio from the album '' Shine'', 2005 * "Spin", a song by Taking Back Sunday from the album ''

Louder Now ''Louder Now'' is the third studio album by American rock band Taking Back Sunday. In April 2005, the group had begun writing material for the album. Two months later, they signed with Warner Bros. Records and contributed a song to the ''Fant ...

'', 2006 * "Spinning" (song), a 2021 song by No Rome, Charli XCX and the 1975 * "Spinning", a song by Christopher Cross and Valerie Carter from the album ''

Christopher Cross Christopher Cross (born Christopher Charles Geppert; May 3, 1951) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He won five Grammy Awards for his eponymous debut album released in 1979. The singles "Sailing" (1979), and " Arthur's Theme (Best ...

'', 1979 * "Spinning", a song by Jack's Mannequin from the album '' The Glass Passenger'', 2008 * "Spinning", a song by Transatlantic from the album '' The Whirlwind'', 2009 * "Spinnin, a song by Soul Asylum from the album '' And the Horse They Rode In On'', 1990

Other uses

* Spin (b-boy move) * Spinning (IPO), a form of financial bribery used by brokerages to gain corporate business *

Spins The spins (as in having "the spins") is an adverse reaction of Substance intoxication, intoxication that causes a state of vertigo and nausea, causing one to feel as if "spinning out of control", especially when lying down. It is most commonly as ...

, a state of dizziness and disorientation due to intoxication ("the spins") * Social Phobia Inventory or SPIN, a psychological test of social anxiety disorder * Article spinning, a SEO approach of using equivalent phrases to rewrite articles * 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 * Wheelspin, spinning the wheels of a vehicle in place *

Spinnerbait A spinnerbait or spinner is any one of a family of hybrid fishing lures that combines the designs of a swimbait with one or more spoon lure blades. Spinnerbaits get the name from the action of the metallic blades, which passively revolve around ...

, a type of fishing lure *

Sufi spinning Sufi whirling (or Sufi turning) ( borrowed from Persian Sama-zan, Sama, meaning ''listening'', from Arabic, and zan, meaning doer, from Persian) is a form of physically active meditation which originated among certain Sufi groups, and which is ...

, a twirling meditation