Snail (disambiguation)
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Snail is usually one of almost all members of the molluscan class Gastropoda which have coiled shells.
Snail may also refer to
Animals
- Gastropoda
- Snail racing, the sport of racing snails against each other
- Snail darter, a small (up to 9 cm long) fish native to waters of East Tennessee
- Snail kite, Rostrhamus sociabilis, a bird of prey within the family Accipitridae
- Snail fur or Hydractinia echinata, a covering of predatory hydroid polyps on the outside of old snail shells where the snail has died
Speed or pace
- Snail mail, a derogatory retronym used to refer to letters and packages carried by conventional postal delivery services
- Snail's pace, at a very slow pace or speed
Television
- Snail (advertisement), a 2004 television advertisement for Guinness Extra Cold which parodies Guinness' 2000 advertisement Bet on Black
Video games
- Snails (video game), a 2002 shooting game by PDAMill for the Pocket PC
- Snail Maze, a 1986 video game by Sega, part of the Sega Master System
Music
- "Snail" (song), a song by The Smashing Pumpkins from the 1991 album Gish
- Snails (EP), a 2005 EP by The Format
- Snails, a Canadian DJ and producer
Other
- Snail (company), Chinese technology company
- SNAI1, or Snail, protein-coding gene
- Escargot, a dish of cooked land snails
- Gary the Snail, a character in the Nickelodeon animated 1999 TV series SpongeBob SquarePants
- Brian the Snail, a snail in the English version of the French children's television programme The Magic Roundabout
- The Snail, a painting by Henri Matisse from 1953
- A slang term for the power source of some rotary snowplows
- A spiral-shaped cam, used in striking clocks and other mechanisms
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