Windmill (disambiguation)

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A windmill is an engine powered by the wind to produce energy, often contained in a large building as in traditional post mills, smock mills and tower mills. Modern versions used to generate power are referred to as wind turbines.

Windmill may also refer to:

• Windmill (breakdance move), one of the most well-known power moves in breakdancing
• Windmill (chess), a combination of moves where a series of discovered checks result in winning of material
• Windmill (company), a Japanese visual novel video game developer
• Windmill (dinghy), class of racing sailboat
• Windmill (solitaire), a solitaire card game played with two decks of cards
• Operation Windmill, a U.S. Navy exploration and training mission to Antarctica in 1947–48
• Windmill Islands, an Antarctic group of rocky islands and rocks
• Windmill restart, a maneuver that uses kinetic energy to restart a jet engine
• Windmill (band), an indie band from the UK.
• Windmill Sessions EP, a 2005 EP produced, written, mixed, and mastered by Kevin Deal
• Windmill, a guitar move credited to Pete Townshend of The Who
• "Windmill", a song on Helloween's Chameleon album.
• "Windmills", a song by Blackmore’s Night from their 2006 album The Village Lanterne
• Plants in the genus Allionia
• "The Windmill", a march chant sung by English members of the French Foreign Legion
• The Windmill Theatre in London
• The Windmill, Brisbane, the oldest surviving building in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• The Windmill, Brixton, Brixton, England
• The Windmill (play), an English stage play
• Windmill Theatre Company, a non-professional musical theatre group in Victoria, Australia
• Windmill (programme) BBC archives-based programme from the 1980s, broadcast from the Windmill Road archives by Chris Serle
• Windmill software, Canadian software company
• Windmill (aerodynamics), movement of a propeller on an airplane engine that has quit running caused by the airstream, causing potentially dangerous drag