Shuttle

The original meaning of the word shuttle is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated with that, the term was then applied in transportation and then in other spheres. Thus the word may now also refer to:

Transport

Air transport

• Air shuttle, a type of flight which quickly connects nearby destinations
• Delta Shuttle, the brand name for Delta Air Lines' air shuttle service
• Rossi Shuttle Quik, an Italian ultralight trike design
• Shuttle America, a regional airline based in Indianapolis, Indiana
• Shuttle by United, a regional airline operated as a subsidiary of United Airlines
• Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, modified Boeing 747 airliners used to transport Space Shuttle orbiters
• US Airways Shuttle, the brand name for an hourly service offered by US Airways
• The call sign for domestic (UK internal) British Airways flights - international flights use Speedbird

Land transport

Automotive brands

• Fit Shuttle, the station wagon version of Honda Fit
• Honda Shuttle, the first generation Honda Odyssey

Mass transit

Transport systems operating at frequent intervals on a short, (mostly) non-stop route between two places

• Shuttle bus service
• Shuttle train service
  • Car shuttle train
    • LeShuttle, the car-carrying trains used in the Channel Tunnel
  • S (New York City Subway service), three shuttle train routes
    • 42nd Street Shuttle, shuttle train between Grand Central and Port Authority
    • Franklin Avenue Shuttle
    • Rockaway Park Shuttle
  • Shuttle (Amtrak)
• Shuttle van, a New Zealand term for shared taxis

Spacecraft

• Shuttle (spacecraft type), a smaller spacecraft used for ship-to-ship and ship-to-ground transport in theory and science fiction
• Space Shuttle, the vehicle for the NASA Space Shuttle program from 1981 to 2011
  • Space Shuttle orbiter, a space plane, the crewed part of the Space Shuttle
• Buran Shuttle, the vehicle for the Soviet Buran programme

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Shuttle (film), a 2008 thriller film
• Shuttle (video game), a video game produced by Virgin
• Shuttling (patience term), a method of play in patience and solitaire games

Sciences and technology

• Molecular shuttles, a molecule capable of nano scale transportation
• Multi-project wafer service (|MPW) shuttle, an integrated circuit production run for multi-chip or multi-project wafers
• Shuttle bombing, a World War II strategic bombing tactic
• Shuttle diplomacy, an international relations tactic
• Shuttle vector, vector that shuttles between species, biochemistry, genetics

Sports

• 20-yard shuttle, a test performed by American football players
• Shuttlecock or birdie, the object batted back and forth in badminton

Other uses

• Shuttle (weaving), used by weavers at a textile mill or on a loom
• Shuttle Inc., a manufacturer of small form-factor computers
• Shuttle trading, a form of goods distribution
• River Shuttle, a river of southeast London in England
• USS Shuttle (SP-3572), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1918 to 1919
• Shuttle, school bullying in South Korea

See also

• The Shuttle (disambiguation)