Catherine wheel

Catherine wheel may refer to:

• wheel or breaking wheel, an instrument of torturous execution originally associated with Saint Catherine of Alexandria
• Catherine wheel (firework), a firework that rotates when lit

Arts and entertainment

• Catherine Wheel (band), 1990s British alternative rock band
• The Catherine Wheel, (dance) a 1981 dance by Twyla Tharp, with music by David Byrne
  • The Catherine Wheel (album), a 1981 recording of David Byrne's musical score commissioned by Twyla Tharp for the dance
  • The Catherine Wheel, a 1983 BBC film of the Twyla Tharp dance
• "Catherine Wheels", a song by Crowded House from the 1993 album Together Alone
• "Catherine Wheel", a song by Megan Washington from the 2020 album Batflowers
• "Katherine Wheel", a song by HIM from the 2010 album Screamworks: Love in Theory and Practice
• The Catherine Wheel, a 1949 crime novel by Patricia Wentworth
• The Catherine Wheel, a 1952 novel by Jean Stafford

Other uses

• Catherine wheel, an older term for the cartwheel in gymnastics
• Catherine wheel (window), a type of spoked circular window
• Catherine-wheel pincushion (Leucospermum catherinae), a flowering evergreen

See also

• Pinwheel (disambiguation)

1. Catherine Wheel (band)
2. Catherine wheel (firework)
3. Breaking wheel
4. The Catherine Wheel (album)
5. Catherine of Alexandria
6. Chrome (Catherine Wheel album)
7. Rose window
8. Rob Dickinson
9. Pinwheel
10. Saint Catherine of Alexandria (Raphael)
11. Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel?
12. Singer Vehicle Design
13. David Byrne
14. Twyla Tharp
15. Adam and Eve (Catherine Wheel album)
16. Young Woman with Unicorn
17. Ferment (album)
18. Bruce Dickinson
19. Storm Thorgerson
20. Black Metallic