Tadpole (disambiguation)

A tadpole is a pollywog, a larval amphibian but the term Tadpole or Tadpoles may also refer to:

*Tadpole Galaxy, a galaxy with a long tidal trail, see.
*"Tadpole" (film), a 2002 film directed by Gary Winick about a teenage boy who falls in love with an older woman.
*In physics, a tadpole is a Feynman diagram with one external leg, and it encodes a one-point function (correlation function of one field). The name is due to Sidney Coleman.
*In the US Navy, it has two meanings:
** a sailor who has not yet crossed the equator while on a ship – this is termed a pollywog. See crossing the line.
** a US Navy SEAL candidate (both officers and enlisted) who have not completed the Basic Underwater Demolitions/SEAL (BUD/S) course in Coronado, California.
*Some scuba diving clubs have an entry class called Tadpoles for younger children who want to start scuba diving.
*Scuba diving clubs in Britain formerly used the nickname "tadpole" for some sorts of early aqualung with small cylinders, or for small aqualung cylinders: see Aqua-lung#"Tadpoles".
* Tadpole (band), a New Zealand band
* Tadpoles (band), a psychedelic rock band
* "Tadpoles" — a 1969 album by the Bonzo Dog Band.
* Tadpole is a computer company perhaps best known for the SPARCbook line of SPARC-based laptops.
* A form of Tricycle having two wheels in front and one wheel in back - see also Low-energy_vehicle
* Tadpole (dinghy)
* Tadpole (three wheel car configuration)
* Tadpole (tricycle wheel configuration)