Boomerang (disambiguation)

A boomerang is a curved wooden throwing implement.

Boomerang may also refer to:

Aircraft

• CAC Boomerang, an Australian-designed and built fighter aircraft in World War 2
• Fisher Boomerang, a US-designed and built ultralight aircraft
• Gin Boomerang, a South Korean paraglider design
• Scaled Composites Boomerang, an unconventional twin engine aircraft designed by Burt Rutan
• Schneider ES-60 Boomerang, an Australian-designed and built glider
• Whitney Boomerang, an Australian-designed and built training aircraft

Entertainment

Comics

• Boomerang (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Captain Boomerang, a DC Comics supervillain and enemy of the Flash

Films

• The Boomerang (film), a 1919 American drama directed by Bertram Bracken
• Boomerang (1934 film), a British drama directed by Arthur Maude
• Boomerang (1947 film), by Elia Kazan
• Boomerang (1966 film), about Polish-German love after World War II (also known as Bumerang), starring Tony Ferrer
• Boomerang (1976 film), a French-Italian crime film
• Boomerang (1992 film), starring Eddie Murphy
• Boomerang (2001 film), a Serbian film
• Boomerang (2013 film), an American TV film starring Felicity Huffman
• Boomerang (2015 film), a French film
• Boomerang (2019 film), a Tamil film

Television

• Boomerang (Australian TV program), a 1961–1962 Australian television discussion program broadcast on GTV-9 in Melbourne
• Boomerang (TV network), a TV channel operated by Warner Bros. with various international versions:
  • Boomerang (Australian and New Zealand TV channel)
  • Boomerang (Central and Eastern Europe TV channel)
  • Boomerang (Middle East and Africa TV channel)
  • Boomerang (French TV channel)
  • Boomerang (German TV channel), former TV channel
  • Boomerang (Italian TV channel)
  • Boomerang (Latin American TV channel)
  • Boomerang (Scandinavian TV channel)
  • Boomerang (Portuguese TV channel)
  • Boomerang (Southeast Asian TV channel)
  • Boomerang (South Korean TV channel)
  • Boomerang (Thai TV channel)
  • Boomerang (Turkish TV channel)
  • Boomerang (UK and Irish TV channel)
• Boomerang (U.S. TV series), an American comedy television series from BET
• Boomerang, a Seattle-area kids' TV show hosted by Marni Nixon

Other

• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, a 2011 nonfiction book by Michael Lewis
• Boomerang! (audio magazine), an audio magazine for kids
• Boomerang, an arcade game also known as Ikki
• Laramie Boomerang, a daily newspaper in Laramie, Wyoming

Music

Albums

• Boomerang (The Creatures album), 1989
• Boomerang (Daara J album), 2003
• Boomerang (Hanson album), 2005
• Boomerang (Mad at the World album), 1991
• Boomerang (soundtrack), a soundtrack album from the 1992 film
• Boomerang (Stacey Q album), 1997

Songs

• "Boomerang" (Barenaked Ladies song), 2013
• "Boomerang" (Tenjo Chiki song), 2006
• "Boomerang" (Lali Espósito song), 2016
• "Boomerang" (DJ Felli Fel song), 2011
• "Boomerang" (Nicole Scherzinger song), 2013
• "Boomerang" (JoJo Siwa song), 2016
• "Boomerang" (Wanna One song), 2018
• "Boomerang", by Jana Kramer from Thirty One
• "Boomerang", by Kiss from Hot in the Shade
• "Boomerang", by Kix from Blow My Fuse
• "Boomerang", by Plain White T's from Wonders of the Younger
• "Boomerang", by Big Pun from Capital Punishment
• "Boomerang", by Pigeon John in collaboration with 20syl
• "Boomerang", a single by Kim Petras

Science

• BOOMERanG experiment, a sub-orbital experiment which studied the properties of cosmic microwave background radiation
• Boomerang Nebula, a nebula in Centaurus

Ships

• HMS Boomerang (1889)
• Boomerang (schooner), an operational 1903 schooner, part of the Sydney Heritage Fleet

Roller coasters

• Boomerang (roller coaster)
• Boomerang (Six Flags México)
• Boomerang (Six Flags St. Louis)
• Boomerang (Worlds of Fun)

Technology

• Boomerang (countermeasure), a gunfire locator
• Boomerang (programming language)
• Boomerang, an Instagram app
• Maserati Boomerang, an automobile
• A controller for the PlayStation 3 games console

Other uses

• Boomerang (cocktail), made with rye whiskey and Swedish Punsch
• Boomerang (horse) (1966–1983), show jumping horse
• Boomerang, Elizabeth Bay, a historic house in Australia
• The Boomerang, a weekly Australian newspaper published from 1887 to 1892
• Color magazine (lighting), also called a boomerang, used to change the colors of a spotlight
• Flying Boomerangs, an Australian rules football team

See also

• VPK-7829 Bumerang, a Russian Army armoured personnel carrier