Spinner may refer to:

Technology

Spinner (aeronautics) A spinner is an aircraft component, a streamlined fairing fitted over a propeller hub or at the centre of a turbofan engine. Spinners both make the aircraft overall more streamlined, thereby reducing aerodynamic drag, and also smooth the airflow ...

, the aerodynamic cone at the hub of an aircraft propeller * Spinner (cell culture), laboratory equipment for cultivating plant or mammalian cells * Spinner (computing), a graphical widget in a GUI * Spinner (MIT Media Lab), software that can automatically edit video to fit a narrative structure

Arts and entertainment

* ''Spinner'' (album), a 1995 album by Brian Eno & Jah Wobble *

Spinner (Blade Runner) Spinner is the generic term for the fictional flying cars used in the film ''Blade Runner''. A Spinner can be driven as a ground-based vehicle, take off vertically, hover, and cruise using jet engine, jet propulsion much like the VTOL, Vertical T ...

, a flying car from the film ''Blade Runner''

People

* Spinner (surname) *

Brian Spencer Brian Roy "Spinner" Spencer (September 3, 1949 – June 3, 1988) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League for the Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders and Pittsburgh Pe ...

(1949–1988), Canadian National Hockey League player nicknamed "Spinner"

Fictional characters

* Spinner (''My Hero Academia''), a character in the manga series ''My Hero Academia'' *Spinner Mason, in the TV series ''Degrassi: The Next Generation'' *Spinner, in the animated TV series ''

Clutch Cargo ''Clutch Cargo'' is an American animated television series created by cartoonist Clark Haas and produced by Cambria Productions, syndicated beginning on March 9, 1959. The series was notable for its limited animation yet imaginative stories, a ...

'' * Dorothy Spinner, a DC Comics character. *Spinner, a villain of

Batman Batman is a superhero who appears in American comic books published by DC Comics. Batman was created by the artist Bob Kane and writer Bill Finger, and debuted in Detective Comics 27, the 27th issue of the comic book ''Detective Comics'' on M ...

from

DC Comics DC Comics (originally DC Comics, Inc., and also known simply as DC) is an American comic book publisher owned by DC Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery. DC is an initialism for "Detective Comics", an American comic book seri ...

Sports and games

Spinner (dominoes) The following is a glossary of terms used in dominoes. Besides the terms listed here, there are numerous regional or local slang terms. Terms in this glossary should not be game-specific, i.e. specific to one particular version of dominoes, but ap ...

, a domino tile that may be played on four ways *a

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

in cricket *a 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 ...

Fidget spinner A fidget spinner or hand spinner is a toy that consists of a ball bearing in the center of a multi-lobed (typically three-lobed) flat structure made from metal or plastic with metal weights in the lobes, designed to spin around its central axis. ...

, a stress relieving toy *

Teetotum A teetotum (or T-totum) is a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games. It has a polygonal body marked with letters or numbers, which indicate the result of each spin. Usage goes back to (at least) ancient Greeks and Romans, wi ...

, a form of spinning top most commonly used for gambling games

Other uses

*a person who spins textiles *a person who engages in

article spinning Article spinning is a writing technique used to deceitfully create what appears to be new content from pre-existing works. It is commonly used on the internet by websites as a method of search engine optimization (SEO) and by students as a form o ...

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 *

Spinner (website) Spinner was an online music and entertainment service. An AOL Music property, it was acquired by AOL on June 1, 1999, along with Nullsoft for $400 million. Based in San Francisco, California, the website was the first Internet music service and w ...

, a music website owned by AOL *

Spinner (wheel) The spinner on automobile wheels historically refers to knock-off hub nuts or center caps. They may be the actual, or intended to simulate, the design used on antique vehicles or vintage sports cars. A "spinner wheel" in contemporary usage is a t ...

, an accessory that goes on an automobile wheel and spins independently *Spinner, a locomotive of the former

Midland Railway 115 Class The Midland Railway 115 Class was the third of four classes of 4-2-2 steam locomotive, nicknamed "Spinners", designed by Samuel Waite Johnson. A total of 15 of the class were built between 1896 and 1899. They were capable of reaching speeds of ...

in the UK *a machine used to do

spin coating Spin coating is a procedure used to deposit uniform thin films onto flat substrates. Usually a small amount of coating material in liquid form is applied on the center of the substrate, which is either spinning at low speed or not spinning at al ...

in manufacturing *a wind spinner or