Pinwheel may refer to: Pinwheel (toy), a spinning children's toy Pinwheel (cryptography), a device for producing a short pseudo-random sequence of bits Pinwheel (shogi), an opening in the game shogi or Japanese chess Pinwheel (TV channel), a channel which would later turn into Nickelodeon Pinwheel (TV series), a children's show on Nickelodeon that ran from 1977 to 1984 Pinwheel calculator (part of), a type of early mechanical arithmetic machine Tabernaemontana divaricata, also known as pinwheel flower Pinwheel tilings, aperiodic tilings of the plane whose tiles appear in infinitely many orientations Catherine wheel (firework), a form of pyrotechnic display device also known as a pinwheel Coenocharopa elegans, also known as the elegant pinwheel snail, a land snail found in Queensland, Australia "Pinwheels", a poem by Patti Smith from her 1978 book Babel Pinwheel USY, part of United Synagogue Youth covering the Pacific Northwest Wartenberg wheel, a neurological medical device See also Pinwheel Galaxy (disambiguation) Pinwheel escapement (disambiguation)