Windmill (disambiguation)

A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy.

Windmill may also refer to:

Art and Culture

• Windmill (breakdance move), one of the most well-known power moves in breakdancing
• Windmill (band), an indie band from the UK
• Windmills (Rick Roberts album)
• Windmills (Faith Assembly album)
• Windmill, a 1980s BBC television series
• Windmill, a guitar move credited to Pete Townshend of The Who
• "Windmill" (song), a 1993 song on Helloween's Chameleon album
• "Windmills", a song by Blackmore’s Night from their 2006 album The Village Lanterne
• "The Windmill", a march chant sung by English members of the French Foreign Legion
• The Windmill (film), a 1937 British film
• Wind milling is a special style of headbanging, popularized by Cannibal Corpse singer Corpsegrinder

Organizations

• Windmill (company), a Japanese visual novel video game developer
• Windmill Theatre Company, a non-professional musical theatre group in Victoria, Australia
• Windmill software, Canadian software company

Sports and Games

• Windmill (chess), a combination of moves where a series of discovered checks result in winning of material
• Windmill (solitaire), a solitaire card game played with two decks of cards
• Windmill (sailing dinghy), class of racing sailboat

Places

• Windmill, Derbyshire
• Windmill Islands, an Antarctic group of rocky islands and rocks
• Windmill, a village near Pentre Halkyn, Wales
• The Windmill Theatre in London
• The Old Windmill, Brisbane, the oldest surviving building in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• The Windmill, Brixton, Brixton, England
• The Windmill (hot dog stand), a hotdog restaurant in Long Branch, New Jersey and the Jersey Shore

Other uses

• Windmill restart, a maneuver that uses kinetic energy to restart a jet engine
• Plants in the genus Allionia
• Windmill (testing framework), an open-source framework for testing software, mainly Web applications
• Operation Windmill, a U.S. Navy exploration and training mission to Antarctica in 1947–48
• Windmill (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe