Cannonball

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A cannonball is round shot ammunition for a cannon.

Cannonball may also refer to:

As a nickname

• Cannonball (nickname), a list of people

Fictional characters

• Cannonball (comics), a Marvel Comics character associated with the X-Men
• Cannonball (G.I. Joe), in the G.I. Joe universe
• Cannonball (Transformers), the Decepticon space pirate in the Transformers toy line
• Experiment 520, from Disney's Lilo & Stitch: The Series

Places

• Cannon Ball, North Dakota, a city
• Cannonball River, a tributary of the Missouri River
• Cannonball Cliffs, Alexander Island, Antarctica

Music

• Cannonball (album), by Pat Green
• "Cannonball" (Duane Eddy song)
• "Cannonball" (The Breeders song)
• "Cannonball" (Supertramp song)
• "Cannonball" (Damien Rice song), covered by Little Mix
• "Cannonball" (Lea Michele song)
• "Cannonball", a song by Five Iron Frenzy from their 2004 album The End Is Near
• "Cannonball", a song by Dog Eat Dog
• "Cannon Ball", a song by Colin Munroe featuring Drake
• "Cannonball", a song by Brandi Carlile
• "Cannon Ball", a soundtrack featured in the Capcom game Mega Man Zero 3

Film and television

• Cannonball (film), a 1976 film inspired by "Cannon Ball" Baker
• Cannonball (Australian TV series), an Australian reality television program debuting in 2016
• Cannonball (TV series), a TV show about two truck drivers, produced in Canada in 1958-59 and syndicated in the U.S. in 1959-60
• Hooterville Cannonball, a fictional train in the television series Petticoat Junction

Trains

• The Cannonball, an Illinois Central passenger train routing between Chicago and New Orleans, designated in modern times as the City of New Orleans
• The Cannonball, a train operated by the Long Island Rail Road along its Montauk Branch
• The Wabash Cannonball, a Wabash Railroad (later Norfolk & Western) passenger train routing between Detroit and St Louis

Biology

• Couroupita guianensis, an evergreen tree commonly called the cannonball tree
• Sphaerobolus, a genus commonly known as the cannonball fungi
• Cannonball jellyfish, a species of jellyfish

Other uses

• A diving technique in swimming
• Operation Cannonball, a Central Intelligence Agency operation
• Cannonball (missile), originally intended to be a US Navy anti-ship missile, later developed as an anti-tank missile
• Cannon Ball roller coaster, a wooden roller coaster at Lake Winnepesaukah, Georgia/Tennessee border
• Cannonball Musical Instruments, a Salt Lake City based musical instrument manufacturer
• Cannonball (novel), a novel by Joseph McElroy