# Zigzag (disambiguation)

A Zigzag is a jagged, regular pattern.
Zigzag, ZigZag, zig zag or zig-zag may also refer to:

## Film and television

* Zigzag (1963 film)
* Zig Zag (1970 film), a film by Richard A. Colla
* Zig Zag (2002 film), a film by David S. Goyer
* Zig Zag (Canadian TV series)
* Zig Zag, an educational TV series on BBC Schools
* Zigzag, a character in The Thief and the Cobbler
* "Zig Zag", an episode of The Outer Limits, season 6

## Music and theatre

* Zig-Zag!, a 1917 musical revue
* Zig Zag (The Hooters album) (1989)
* Zig Zag (Tha Mexakinz album) (1994)
* Zig Zag, a 2003 album by Earl Slick
* Zig Zags, a heavy metal/punk rock band
* Shintenchi Kaibyaku Shudan: Zigzag, a japanese visual-kei band

## Culture

* ZigZag (magazine), a UK rock music magazine
* Zig Zag (manga), a cartoon series by Yuki Nakaji
* Zigzag (surfing magazine)

## Computer science

* ZigZag (software), a data model designed and patented by Ted Nelson
* Zig-zag product, a method for constructing graphs in computational complexity
* Zig-Zag, a tree-rotation variant used to balance splay trees
* Zig-zag entropy coding, a method used in JPEG images to compress data
* ZigZag encoding, a mapping of the signed integers to unsigned integers that shortens variable-length quantity representations of negative integers

## Geography

* Zig Zag Pass, site of the Struggle on Zig Zag Pass in the Philippines during World War II
* Zigzag, Oregon
** Zigzag Glacier
** Zigzag Ranger Station
** Zigzag River and Little Zigzag River
* Zigzag Bluff in Antarctica
* Zigzag Island off the coast of Antarctica
* Zigzag Pass on the island of South Georgia

## Mathematics and cryptography

* Boustrophedon transform, a zigzag reordering
* Fence (mathematics) or zigzag poset, a partially ordered set
* Isbell's zigzag theorem
* Zig-zag lemma, a mathematical lemma in homological algebra
* Zigzag cipher, a type of cipher, or code

## Railroads

* Zig zag (railway), a construction technique railroads use to climb hills; also called a switchback
* Lapstone Zig Zag, a walking track on the line of an abandoned railway
* Zig Zag Railway, a heritage railway near Lithgow
* Zig Zag railway station, a railway station on the CityRail network near Lithgow, New South Wales
* Kalamunda Zig Zag in Western Australia
* Perry Bridge or Zig Zag Bridge, a 1711 bridge over River Tame in Perry Barr, Birmingham, England

## Revolvers

* Mauser Zig-Zag, a 19th-century revolver
* Zig zag revolver, a 3D-printed revolver developed in Japan

## Architecture

* Zig-Zag Chair, designed by Gerrit Rietveld
* Zig-zag moulding on Norman arches
* Zigzag Moderne, a style and feature of Art Deco architecture

## Animals

* Phasianella zigzag, a species of sea snail
* Northern zigzag salamander
* Ozark zigzag salamander
* Southern zigzag salamander
* Zigzag barb, a ray-finned fish
* Zigzag heron, a bird
* Zigzagiceras, an extinct cephalopod genus

## Other uses

* Boustrophedon, writing in alternating directions
* Zig Zag (1984 video game), a video game by DK'Tronics
* Zig Zag (1987 video game), a video game by Mirrorsoft
* Zig-Zag (company), a tobacco products company
* Zig-zag bridge, a type of pedestrian walkway
* USS Zigzag (SP-106), a patrol vessel that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919
* Agent Zigzag, code name of Eddie Chapman, a British double agent
* Zig-zag in-line package, a short-lived packaging technology for integrated circuits
* Zigzag transformer, an engineering device for electrical systems
* ZigZag, a ticketing scheme in Derbyshire, UK, by bus operator Trent Barton
* Zig Zag Girl, a stage magic illusion
* The zigzag model of plant-pathogen co-evolution by Jonathan D. G. Jones and Jeffery Dangl
* Isbell's zigzag theorem