Tomahawk

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Tomahawk may refer to:

[edit] Miscellaneous

• Tomahawk (axe), a type of axe made and used by Native Americans
• Tomahawk (band), an alternative metal band fronted by Mike Patton
• Tomahawk (geometric shape), a geometric shape that can be used to trisect angles
• Apache MyFaces Tomahawk, a set of open-source JavaServer Faces components (software)
• Tomahawk haircut
• Tomahawk Festival, a heavy metal music festival in Germany
• Tomahawk, a satirical weekly magazine (1867-1870)
• Tomahawk-Talk (website), an Atlanta Braves message board

[edit] Military and transportation

• Piper PA-38 Tomahawk, a light general aviation aircraft
• Curtiss P-40, a fighter aircraft
• BGM-109 Tomahawk, a cruise missile built in the United States
• TE-416 Tomahawk, a US sounding rocket
• Dodge Tomahawk, a concept motorcycle

[edit] Fiction

• Tomahawk (film) (1951), directed by George Sherman
• Tomahawk (comics), a DC Comics character, published in his own series during the 1950s and 1960s
• Tomahawk (G.I. Joe), a helicopter from G.I. Joe toys, comics and animation

[edit] Places

• Tomahawk, Wisconsin, a city in the USA
• Tomahawk (town), Wisconsin, a nearby town
• Tomahawk, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the USA
• Tomahawk, New Zealand was the old name for Ocean Grove derived from the Māori (Tomo-haka)
• Tomahawk, Alberta, a hamlet in Alberta Canada
• Tomahawk, Tasmania. a town in Tasmania, Australia

[edit] Sports

• In baseball, the Atlanta Braves use the tomahawk as the weapon of choice. At times, when excitement is high, fans use foam tomahawks, or simply their hands, to do a chopping motion referred to as the "tomahawk chop".
• In basketball, a tomahawk is a one-handed slam dunk, where the ball is brought over the head before being stuffed into the basket, in a chopping motion
• A turning maneuver used in inline skating
• The United States national rugby league team, nicknamed the Tomahawks
• The mascot for the P.E.I. Rocket of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
• In field hockey, a tomahawk is a type of hit where the hockey stick is turned so that the rounded side faces the ground and then swung in such a way that it hits the ball in a downward chopping motion.
• At Algonquin Regional High School in Northborough, MA the Tomahawk is the school's mascot
• In skiing a Tomahawk is when you flip head over heals down the mountain.