Snail (disambiguation)

Snail is usually one of almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda which have coiled shells.

Snail may also refer to

Animals

• Gastropoda
• Snail racing, the sport of racing snails against each other
• Snail darter, a small (up to 9 cm long) fish native to waters of East Tennessee
• Snail kite, Rostrhamus sociabilis, a bird of prey within the family Accipitridae
• Snail fur or Hydractinia echinata, a covering of predatory hydroid polyps on the outside of old snail shells where the snail has died

Speed or pace

• Snail mail, a derogatory retronym used to refer to letters and packages carried by conventional postal delivery services
• Snail's pace, at a very slow pace or speed

Television

• Snail (advertisement), a 2004 television advertisement for Guinness Extra Cold which parodies Guinness' 2000 advertisement Bet on Black
• Les Escargots, The Snails, 1965 animation by René Laloux
• Turbo, a 2013 film about a snail (Turbo) who, unlike most snails, is very fast and competes in races.

Video games

• Snails (video game), a 2002 shooting game by PDAMill for the Pocket PC
• Snail Maze, a 1986 video game by Sega, part of the Sega Master System

Music

• "Snail" (song), a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the 1991 album Gish
• Snails (EP), a 2005 EP by The Format
• Snails (born May 4 1988), a Canadian DJ and producer

Other

• Snail (company), Chinese technology company
• SNAI1, or Snail, protein-coding gene
• Escargot, a dish of cooked land snails
• Gary the Snail, a character in the Nickelodeon animated 1999 TV series SpongeBob SquarePants
• Brian the Snail, a snail in the English version of the French children's television programme The Magic Roundabout
• The Snail, a painting by Henri Matisse from 1953
• A slang term for the power source of some rotary snowplows
• A spiral-shaped cam, used in striking clocks and other mechanisms
• Pain aux raisins, a spiral shaped pastry