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Flyer or flier may refer to:

Common meanings

• Aircraft pilot, a person who flies an aircraft
• Flyer (pamphlet), a single-page leaflet

Arts and entertainment

• Flyer (band), a Croatian pop band
• Flyer (album), by Nanci Griffith
• Flyer (New-Gen), a fictional Marvel Comics superhero

Military uses

• USS Flier, an American World War II submarine
• General Dynamics Flyer, an Advanced Light Strike Vehicle platform in development for the US military

People

• Flier (surname)
• Flyer (wrestler), ring name of a Mexican professional wrestler born 1994

Science and technology

• Fast Low-Ionization Emission Region (FLIER), a poorly understood structure in some planetary nebulae
• HTC Flyer, a tablet computer released by HTC
• Flier (BEAM), a type of robot that can fly

Sports

Ice hockey

• Philadelphia Flyers, a National Hockey League team from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Pensacola Ice Flyers, an ice hockey team from Pensacola, Florida, United States
• Spokane Flyers (senior), an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington, United States
• Spokane Flyers (junior), an ice hockey team from Spokane, Washington
• Fife Flyers, an ice hockey team from Kirkcaldy, Scotland
• Kloten Flyers, an ice hockey team from Kloten, Switzerland
• Spektrum Flyers, an ice hockey team from Oslo, Norway

Baseball

• Fullerton Flyers, a baseball team from Fullerton, California, United States
• Panama City Fliers, a minor league baseball team based in Panama City, Florida, United States
• Schaumburg Flyers, a baseball team from Schaumburg, Illinois, United States

School teams

• Dayton Flyers, athletic teams of the University of Dayton, Ohio
• Flyers, the sports teams of Waynflete School, Portland, Maine
• Flyers and Lady Flyers, the sports teams of Franklin County High School (Kentucky)

Other sports

• Fort Worth Flyers, a basketball team from Fort Worth, Texas, United States
• Flyer, a position in cheerleading stunts

Transportation

Automobiles

• Flyer (1913 automobile), manufactured by the Flyer Motor Car Company in Michigan, United States, from 1913 to 1914
• Alpena Flyer, an American automobile manufactured between 1910 and 1914 in Alpena, Michigan
• BYD Flyer, manufactured by BYD Auto in Shenzhen, China, since 2004
• Smith Flyer, manufactured by A.O. Smith Company in Milwaukee, United States, from 1915 until about 1919
• Thomas Flyer, manufactured by Thomas Motor Company

Aviation

• Wright Flyer, the first powered aircraft, built and flown by the Wright Brothers in 1903
• Abramovich Flyer, a biplane built by Vsevolod Abramovich in 1912
• Fisher Flyer, a single-engined ultralight biplane built by Michael Fisher in 1980
• Kolb Flyer, a twin-engined ultralight monoplane produced in kit form by Kolb Aircraft from 1980 to 1982
• Pfitzner Flyer, a monoplane designed by Alexander Pfitzner in 1909
• Flyer Indústria Aeronáutica, a Brazilian manufacturer of ultralight aircraft
• Flyer F600 NG, an ultralight aircraft from the Brazilian manufacturer Flyer Industria Aeronáutica Ltda.
• FLYER (magazine), a monthly UK aviation publication

Ships

• Flyer (yacht), with which Conny van Rietschoten won the 1977–1978 Whitbread Round the World Race
• Flyer II (yacht), with which Conny van Rietschoten won the 1981–1982 Whitbread Round the World Race
• Flyer (steamboat), a passenger ship which operated on Puget Sound from 1891 to 1930
• USNS Flyer, a cargo ship launched in 1944

Trains

Australia

• Newcastle Flyer, an express passenger service connecting Newcastle and Sydney from 1929 to 1988

New Zealand

• Kingston Flyer, a vintage steam service begun in 1982
• Kingston Flyer (train), an express passenger service operated between the 1890s and 1957
• Taranaki Flyer, a passenger service between New Plymouth and Wanganui which ended in 1959

United States

• Century Flyer, an historic narrow-gauge train
• Berkshire Flyer, a seasonal Amtrak passenger train service between New York City and the Berkshire Mountains in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
• Champlain Flyer, a commuter service connecting Burlington, Shelburne, and Charlotte, in Vermont, from 2000 to 2003
• Heartland Flyer, a passenger train between Fort Worth, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, begun in 1999
• Valley Flyer (ATSF train), a passenger service between Bakersfield and Oakland, in California, from 1939 to 1942
• Valley Flyer, a passenger train between New Haven, Connecticut and Greenfield, Massachusetts

Buses

• Flyer (bus service), bus services to Leeds Bradford Airport
• Spondon Flyer, a bus service in England

Other uses

• American Flyer, a toy train and model railroad brand
• Singapore Flyer, a giant Ferris wheel
• Flier (fish) (Centrarchus macropterus), a sunfish native to the southern United States
• Memphis Flyer, a free weekly alternative newspaper
• Filmotype Flyer, typeface produced by Filmotype
• Flyer, one of the two components of a flying buttress
• Flyer, a U-shaped mechanism in a spinning wheel, invented in the late 15th century
• Flyer, a female kangaroo

See also

• All pages with titles containing Flyers
• New Flyer, a Canadian bus manufacturer

• Disambiguation pages