Spin
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Businesses
- SPIN (cable system) or South Pacific Island Network
- Spin (company), an American scooter-sharing system
- SPiN, a chain of table tennis lounges
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Computing
- SPIN (operating system), a Mach-like OS written in Modula-3
- Spin (programming language), a high-level programming language
- SPIN (software process), a Software Process Improvement Network
- Busy waiting or spinning
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Films
- Spin (1995 film), a documentary film
- Spin (2003 film), a film by James Redford
- Spin (2007 film), a film by Henry Pincus
- Spin, a 2010 short film by Max Hattler
- SPiN (2015 film), a short film directed by Noah Workman and written by Wilson Cleveland
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Literature
- Spin (magazine), an American music magazine
- Spin (novel), a 2005 novel by Robert Charles Wilson
- Spinning (comics), a 2017 graphic novel memoir by Tillie Walden
- Spin, a 2004 novel by Martin Sixsmith
- Spin, a fictional power in "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure"
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Music
- Spin (radio), a single play of a song
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Groups
- SPiN (band), an American Alternative Rock / Power pop band
- Spin (Maltese band), an industrial band
- Spin, a Dutch funk band, an offshoot of Ekseption
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Albums
- Spin (Darren Hayes album) (2002)
- Spin (Scullion album) (1985)
- Spin (Tigers Jaw album) (2017)
- The Spin, a 1989 album by Yellowjackets
- Spin, a 2001 album by Eric Roche
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Songs
- "Spin" (Trey Anastasio song) (2005)
- "Spin" (Lifehouse song) (2002)
- "Spinning", a 1979 song by Christopher Cross from Christopher Cross
- "Spinning", a 2008 song by Jack's Mannequin from The Glass Passenger
- "Spinnin'", a 1990 song by Soul Asylum from And the Horse They Rode In On
- "Spin", a 2006 song by Taking Back Sunday from Louder Now
- "Spinning", a 2009 song by Transatlantic from The Whirlwind
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Physics and mathematics
- Rotation or spin, a movement of an object in a circular motion
- Spin (aerodynamics), autorotation of an aerodynamically stalled aeroplane
- Spin (physics) or particle spin, a fundamental property of elementary particles
- SPIN bibliographic database, an indexing and abstracting service focusing on physics research
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Sports
- Spinning (cycling) or indoor cycling, a form of exercise
- Spinning (motorsport), a South African motorsport
- Figure skating spins, a number of different skating moves
- Poi spinning, a form of juggling
- Spin bowling, a type of bowling technique in cricket
- Spin fishing
- Spinning, a vertical-axis style of delivery in ten-pin bowling
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Technology
- Spinning (polymers), a process for creating polymer fibres
- Spinning (textiles), the creation of yarn or thread by twisting fibers together
- Hand spinning, textile art to create yarn by hand
- Metal spinning, the process of forming metal over a mandrel while rotating on a lathe
- Chevrolet Spin, a mini multi-purpose vehicle
- Fokker Spin, an aeroplane built by Anthony Fokker
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Television
- Spin (TV series) or Template:Lang, a 2012 French political drama series
- "Spin" (Charlie Jade), an episode of Charlie Jade
- "Spin" (House), a 2005 episode of House
- Spin, a character on Really Wild Animals
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Other uses
- Spin (b-boy move)
- Spinning (IPO), a form of financial bribery used by brokerages to gain corporate business
- Spin (propaganda), a heavily biased portrayal of an event or situation
- Spins, a state of dizziness and disorientation due to intoxication ("the spins")
- Social Phobia Inventory or SPIN, a psychological test of social anxiety disorder
- Article spinning, a SEO approach of using equivalent phrases to rewrite articles
- Pen spinning
- Road agent's spin or "Curly Bill spin", a gunfighting maneuver utilized as a ruse when forced to surrender a side arm to an unfriendly party
- Wheelspin, spinning the wheels of a vehicle in place
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See also
- Aerotrim, a gyroscope large enough to contain a human being
- Flat spin (disambiguation)
- Spin group, a particular double cover of the special orthogonal group SO(n)
- SPIN model checker, a tool for formal verification of distributed software systems
- Spin tensor, a tensor quantity for describing spinning motion in special relativity and general relativity
- Spin-off (disambiguation)
- Spinnerbait
- Spun (disambiguation)
- Sufi spinning, a twirling meditation
- Tailspin (disambiguation)
- Twirling
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