Roller (disambiguation)

Roller (disambiguation)

Roller may mean:

In biology:

  • Roller, family of brightly coloured near passerine birds in the genera Coracias and Eurystomus
  • Roller (pigeon), varieties of domestic pigeons that tumble or roll in flight.

In industry:

  • Roller (machine part), a cylindrical machine component or a component of a roller bearing
  • Roller (agricultural tool), an agricultural or gardening implement for leveling ground
  • Road roller (also called 'roller-compactor' or steam roller), a heavy machine used in construction of roads & foundations
  • Rolling mill, heavy machine with cylindrical rolls, used in a steel mill: see also hot rolling and cold rolling
  • wheel, a wheel, often trapped on an axle between two planes, on which a load can be carried and transported.

As a personal surname:

Other uses:

  • A mathematical "roller" is a Curve of constant width
  • Roller, an Autobot component of Optimus Prime
  • Rollers can refer to a light bar specifically, and by extension, a Police Car
  • a padded surcingle, that is used on horses for training and vaulting
  • Bicycle rollers, a type of bicycle trainer
  • Roller (brush), a type of rotating paintbrush
  • Rollerball pens (or roller pens), a type of writing instrument
  • Rolls-Royce, nickname for the motor car brand
  • The Australia men's national wheelchair basketball team, officially nicknamed "Rollers"
  • the Rollers, rock band which evolved from the Bay City Rollers
  • Apache Roller, a blog server written in Java
  • Hair roller, also known as hot roller, an implement used in hairdressing to curl hair
  • Paint roller
  • Roller (BEAM), a kind of robot that moves by rolling.
  • "Roller", an April Wine song
  • Roller (Transformers), a fictional character

See also


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