Roller may refer to:
Birds
*Roller, a bird of the family
Coraciidae
Coraciidae is a family of Old World birds, which is known as rollers because of the aerial acrobatics some of these birds perform during courtship or territorial flights. Rollers resemble crows in size and build, and share the colourful appeara ...
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Roller (pigeon), a domesticated breed or variety of pigeon
Devices
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Roller (agricultural tool)
The roller is an agricultural tool used for flattening land or breaking up large clumps of soil, especially after ploughing or disc harrowing. Typically, rollers are pulled by tractors or, prior to mechanisation, a team of animals such as horses ...
, a non-powered tool for flattening ground
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Road roller
A road roller (sometimes called a roller-compactor, or just roller) is a compactor-type engineering vehicle used to compact soil, gravel, concrete, or asphalt in the construction of roads and foundations. Similar rollers are used also at la ...
, a vehicle for compacting
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Steamroller, a form of road roller
* Roller, an element of a
rolling-element bearing
* Roller, used in
rolling (metalworking)
* Roller, in a
roller mill
Roller mills are mills that use cylindrical rollers, either in opposing pairs or against flat plates, to crush or grind various materials, such as grain, ore, gravel, plastic, and others. Roller grain mills are an alternative to traditional ...
, to crush or grind various materials
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Rolling pin
Rolling is a type of motion that combines rotation (commonly, of an axially symmetric object) and translation of that object with respect to a surface (either one or the other moves), such that, if ideal conditions exist, the two are in contact ...
, a compacting device used for preparing dough for cooking
* Roller (BEAM), a robot
* Bicycle rollers, a type of bicycle trainer
* Hair roller, used to curl hair
* Paint roller, a paint application tool
* Roller, or training surcingle, around a horse's girth
Arts and entertainment
* Bay City Rollers, or the Rollers, a Scottish pop rock band
* "The Roller", a 2011 song by Beady Eye
* Roller (Apache 207 song), "Roller" (Apache 207 song), 2019
* Roller (April Wine song), "Roller" (April Wine song), 1978
* Roller (Goblin album), ''Roller'' (Goblin album), 1976
* Roller, partner of the Optimus Prime character
People with the surname
* Charles Roller (1879–1963), American football player and coach
* A. Clyde Roller (1914–2005), American conductor and music educator
* Edeltraud Roller (1957-2020), German political scientist
* Joseph Roller (1929–1998), Luxembourgian footballer
* Kyle Roller (born 1988), American baseball player
* Mihail Roller (1908–1958), Romanian communist politician
* Philip Roller (born 1994), Thai footballer
* William Roller (1858—1949), English cricketer
Other uses
* Apache Roller, a blog server written in Java
* Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team, or Rollers
* Roller (typeface), originally Iberica, by Carlos Winkow
* Roller printing on textiles
See also
* Roll (disambiguation)
* Rollerball pen
* List of Rolls-Royce motor cars
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