Tail (disambiguation)

Tail describes the rear portion of an animal's body, especially as a flexible appendage.

Tail may also refer to:
* Tail (Unix), a Unix program used to display the last few lines of a file
* "Tails" (Lisa Loeb album), a 1994 album by Lisa Loeb
* Tail recursion, a type of recursion in computer programming
* Tail sequence (set theory), an unbounded sequence of contiguous ordinals
* Tail rotor, a small vertical propeller mounted at the rear of a helicopter
* Tailcoat, or tails, a type of coat used in evening dress
* Fee tail, in common law
* Miles "Tails" Prower, a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game series
* Fat tail, the long end of a probability distribution in mathematics

Tail may also be:
* The empennage of an aircraft
* The luminous train behind a comet
* The reverse side of a coin
* The final batters in the batting order for cricket
* A colloquial reference to sexual intercourse
* A person following a target in a surveillance operation
* The extreme ends of the bell curve of a Normal distribution