Volante Explained

Volante (meaning "flying" and "steering wheel" in several languages) may refer to:

• Volante (carriage), two-wheeled carriage
• Volante, a racehorse, the 1885 American Derby winner
• The Volante, newspaper of the University of South Dakota, United States, since 1887
• The midfielder position in association football (Volante means defensive midfielder in Brazilian language but midfielder elsewhere in Latin America)
• Former Brazilian soldiers combatting cangaceiros
• Reparto volanti or Squadra volante, "flying squad" of the Italian State Police

People with the name Volante

• Carlos Volante (born 1905), Argentinian footballer

See also

• • Aston Martin Volante, type of car
• The Volante Handicap, American horse race established 1969
• Disco Volante (disambiguation)
• Papel volante, Portuguese popular literature
• Squadrone Volante, 17th-century "flying squad"