# Twist

Twist may refer to:

## In arts and entertainment
### Film, television, and stage

* Twist (2003 film), a 2003 independent film loosely based on Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist
* Twist (2021 film), a 2021 modern rendition of Oliver Twist starring Rafferty Law
* The Twist (1976 film), a 1976 film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol
* The Twist (1992 film), a 1992 documentary film directed by Ron Mann
* Twist (stage play), a 1995 stage thriller by Miles Tredinnick
* Twist, the main character on television series The Fresh Beat Band and its spin-off Fresh Beat Band of Spies
* Oliver Twist (disambiguation), name of several film, television, and musical adaptations based on Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist
* "Twist" (Only Murders in the Building), a 2021 episode of the TV series Only Murders in the Building
* Jack Twist, a character in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain
* Twist Morgan, a character in the television series Spaced

### Music

* Twist (album), a 1994 album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn
* The Twist (album), a 1984 album by Danish indiepop band Gangway
* "The Twist" (song), a song by Hank Ballard, covered by Chubby Checker, a hit in 1960
* "The Twist", a song from the album Grow Up and Blow Away by Metric
* "The Twist", a song from the album Coming Back Hard Again by hip hop band The Fat Boys
* "Twist" (Phish song), from the 2000 album Farmhouse by Phish
* "Twist" (Goldfrapp song), a single from the 2003 album Black Cherry by Goldfrapp
* Twist, an album by Chris & Cosey
* "Twist", a song from the album Unfinished Business by Nathan Sykes
* "Twist" a song from the album A Hundred Days Off by Underworld
* "Twist", the opener of the 1996 Korn album, Life Is Peachy
* "Twisting", a song from the album Flood by They Might Be Giants
* Twist (band), a rock band from Birmingham, England, UK

### Other media

* Twist ending, an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction
* Twist (magazine), an American teen magazine
* Twist (Cano novel), a novel by Harkaitz Cano
* Twist (Östergren novel), a novel by Klas Östergren
* Twist (TV network), an American television network
* Oliver Twist, a novel by Charles Dickens, and its main character

## Finance

* Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team (TWIST), a non-profit financial industry standards group
* Operation Twist, an effort (in 1961, and again in 2011) by the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower long-term interest rates

## Mathematics, science, and technology

* Serre twist on a graded module or projective scheme
* Twist (mechanics), the torsion of an object
* Twist (differential geometry), a geometric quantity associated with a ribbon
* Twists of curves, a method of deriving related curves
* Twist (rational trigonometry), in Wildberger's Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry
* Twist (screw theory), in applied mathematics and physics
* Twist (software), a test automation solution by ThoughtWorks Studios
* Ellipse Twist, a French hang glider
* Twist fungus (Dilophospora alopecuri)
* Twisting properties, in statistics
* Twist transcription factor, a gene protein

## People

* Barry McGee (born 1966), also known as Twist, painter and graffiti artist
* Leroy "Twist" Casey (born 1973), disk jockey
* Liz Twist (born 1956), British Member of Parliament
* Susan Twist (born 1956), British actress
* Tony Twist (born 1968), Canadian hockey player

## Places

* Twist, Arkansas, a city in the United States
* Twist, Germany, a municipality in Lower Saxony

## Sport

* Aerial twist, an acrobatic maneuver in gymnastics
* Twist lifts, a type of lift in pairs figure skating

## Other uses

* Twist (cocktail garnish), a decorative piece of citrus zest
* Twist (confectionery), a Norwegian bag of sweets, now produced in Sweden
* Twist (dance), a rock and roll dance
* Twist (poker), a special round in some variants of stud poker
* Twist (ride), a popular amusement ride, often seen on travelling funfairs
* French twist (hairstyle), a hair styling technique
* Twist tobacco, a type of chewing tobacco
* Sail twist, a phenomenon in sailing
* Wing twist, a design choice in aeronautics