Twist may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

Film, television, and stage

Twist (2003 film), an independent film loosely based on Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist

Twist (2021 film), a modern rendition of Oliver Twist starring Rafferty Law

The Twist (1976 film), a film co-written and directed by Claude Chabrol

The Twist (1992 film), a documentary film directed by Ron Mann

Twist (stage play), a 1995 stage thriller by Miles Tredinnick

Twist, the main character on television series The Fresh Beat Band and its spin-off Fresh Beat Band of Spies

Oliver Twist (disambiguation), name of several film, television, and musical adaptations based on Charles Dickens's novel Oliver Twist

"Twist" (Only Murders in the Building), a 2021 episode of the TV series Only Murders in the Building

Jack Twist, a character in the 2005 film Brokeback Mountain

Twist Morgan, a character in the television series Spaced

Music

Twist (album), a 1994 album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Dave Dobbyn

The Twist (album), a 1984 album by Danish indiepop band Gangway

"The Twist" (song), a song by Hank Ballard, covered by Chubby Checker, a hit in 1960

"The Twist", a song from the album Grow Up and Blow Away by Metric

"The Twist", a song from the album Coming Back Hard Again by hip hop band The Fat Boys

"Twist" (Phish song), from the 2000 album Farmhouse by Phish

"Twist" (Goldfrapp song), a single from the 2003 album Black Cherry by Goldfrapp

Twist, an album by Chris & Cosey

"Twist", a song from the album Unfinished Business by Nathan Sykes

"Twist" a song from the album A Hundred Days Off by Underworld

"Twist", the opener of the 1996 Korn album, Life Is Peachy

"Twisting", a song from the album Flood by They Might Be Giants

Twist (band), a rock band from Birmingham, England, UK

Other media

Twist ending, an unexpected conclusion or climax to a work of fiction

Twist (magazine), an American teen magazine

Twist (Cano novel), a novel by Harkaitz Cano

Twist (McCann novel), a novel by Colum McCann

Twist (Östergren novel), a novel by Klas Östergren

Twist (TV network), an American television network

Oliver Twist, a novel by Charles Dickens, and its main character

Finance

Transaction Workflow Innovation Standards Team (TWIST), a non-profit financial industry standards group

Operation Twist, an effort (in 1961, and again in 2011) by the U.S. Federal Reserve to lower long-term interest rates

Mathematics, science, and technology

Serre twist on a graded module or projective scheme

Twist (mechanics), the torsion of an object

Twist (differential geometry), a geometric quantity associated with a ribbon

Twists of curves, a method of deriving related curves

Twist (rational trigonometry), in Wildberger's Divine Proportions: Rational Trigonometry to Universal Geometry

Twist (screw theory), in applied mathematics and physics

Twist (software), a test automation solution by ThoughtWorks Studios

Ellipse Twist, a French hang glider

Twist fungus (Dilophospora alopecuri)

Twisting properties, in statistics

Twist transcription factor, a gene protein

People

Barry McGee (born 1966), also known as Twist, painter and graffiti artist

Leroy "Twist" Casey (born 1973), disk jockey

Liz Twist (born 1956), British Member of Parliament

Susan Twist (born 1956), British actress

Tony Twist (born 1968), Canadian hockey player

Places

Twist, Arkansas, a city in the United States

Twist, Germany, a municipality in Lower Saxony

Sport

Aerial twist, an acrobatic maneuver in gymnastics