Roll
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Roll or Rolls may refer to:
Places
- Roll, Arizona, US
- Roll, Indiana, US
- Roll, Oklahoma, US
Music
- Roll (Anne McCue album)
- Roll (Emerson Drive album)
- Music roll, a storage medium used to operate a mechanical instrument such as a player piano
- Legato or rolls, a guitar technique involving connected notes
Vehicles and maneuvers
- Roll (gymnastics), a movement resulting in a complete rotation of the body executed on the ground
- Roll program, an aerodynamic maneuver performed in a rocket launch
- Kayak roll, a maneuver used to right a capsized kayak
- Roll, a parameter of flight dynamics
- Roll, a type of aerobatic maneuver
- Roll, the movement of a watercraft from side to side caused by wave action, one of several ship motions
- Roll, the smooth wheel on a road roller or steamroller
People with the surname
Roll
- Alfred Philippe Roll (1846–1919), French painter
- Bob Roll (born 1960), American professional cyclist and commentator
- Eric Roll (1907–2005), academic economist, public servant and banker
- Ferdinand Nicolai Roll (1831–1921), Norwegian jurist and politician
- John Roll (1947–2011), United States federal judge
- Michael Roll (actor) (born 1961), German television actor
- Michael Roll (pianist) (born 1946), British pianist
- Michael Roll (basketball) (born 1987), American basketball player
- Richard Roll (born 1939), American economist
- Sigurd Roll (1893–1944), Norwegian diplomat and athlete
- Stephan Roll (1904-1974), Romanian poet
- William G. Roll (born 1926), American psychologist and parapsychologist
- Thomas Røll (born 1977), retired Danish professional footballer
Rolls
- John Etherington Welch Rolls (1807–1870), British jurist and art collector
- John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock (1837–1912), MP, agriculturalist and landowner
- John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock (1870–1916), barrister and soldier
- Charles Rolls (1877–1910), co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited and pioneer aviator
Other uses
- Bread roll
- Roll (Mega Man)
- Rolls (restaurant chain), a fast food restaurant chain
- Scroll or roll, a rolled-up piece of parchment or paper
- Roll, a special type of hold arrow in the video game and engine StepMania
- Roll, a UK unit of weight for butter and cheese; See List of obsolete units of measurement
See also
- Banjo roll
- Coin wrapper or coin roll
- Drum roll
- List of rolled foods
- Role
- Roll call (disambiguation)
- Roll cloud
- Roll slitting
- Rolls Razor, a safety razor and washing machine manufacturer
- Rolle (disambiguation)
- Rolls-Royce (disambiguation)
- Rolling (disambiguation)
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