# Shuttle

The original meaning of the word shuttle is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres. Thus the word may now also refer to:

## Transport
### Air transport

* Air shuttle, a type of flight which quickly connects nearby destinations
* Delta Shuttle, the brand name for Delta Air Lines' air shuttle service
* Rossi Shuttle Quik, an Italian ultralight trike design
* Shuttle America, a regional airline based in Indianapolis, Indiana
* Shuttle by United, a regional airline operated as a subsidiary of United Airlines
* Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, modified Boeing 747 airliners used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters
* US Airways Shuttle, the brand name for an hourly service offered by US Airways
* The call sign for domestic (UK internal) British Airways flights - international flights use Speedbird

### Land transport
#### Automotive brands

* Fit Shuttle, the station wagon version of Honda Fit
* Honda Shuttle, the first generation Honda Odyssey

#### Mass transit

Transport systems operating at frequent intervals on a short, (mostly) non-stop route between two places
* Shuttle bus service
* Shuttle train service
** Car shuttle train
*** LeShuttle, the car-carrying trains used in the Channel Tunnel
** S (New York City Subway service), three shuttle train routes
*** 42nd Street Shuttle, shuttle train between Grand Central and Port Authority
*** Franklin Avenue Shuttle
*** Rockaway Park Shuttle
** Amtrak Hartford Line, formerly named the New Haven–Springfield Shuttle
* Shuttle van, a New Zealand term for shared taxis

### Spacecraft

* Shuttle (spacecraft type), a smaller spacecraft used for ship-to-ship and ship-to-ground transport in theory and science fiction
* Space Shuttle, the vehicle for the NASA Space Shuttle program from 1981 to 2011
** Space Shuttle orbiter, a space plane, the crewed part of the Space Shuttle
* Buran Shuttle, the vehicle for the Soviet Buran programme

## Arts, entertainment, and media

* Shuttle (film), a 2008 thriller film
* Shuttle (video game), a video game produced by Virgin
* Shuttling (patience term), a method of play in patience and solitaire games

## Sciences and technology

* Molecular shuttles, a molecule capable of nano scale transportation
* Multi-project wafer service (|MPW) shuttle, an integrated circuit production run for multi-chip or multi-project wafers
* Shuttle bombing, a World War II strategic bombing tactic
* Shuttle diplomacy, an international relations tactic
* Shuttle vector, vector that shuttles between species, biochemistry, genetics

## Sports

* 20-yard shuttle, a test performed by American football players
* Shuttlecock or birdie, the object batted back and forth in badminton

## Other uses

* Shuttle (weaving), used by weavers at a textile mill or on a loom
* Shuttle Inc., a manufacturer of small form-factor computers
* Shuttle trading, a form of goods distribution
* River Shuttle, a river of southeast London in England
* USS Shuttle (SP-3572), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919
* Shuttle, school bullying in South Korea