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The configuration and number of pistons in relation to each other and the crank leads to straight, V or flat engines.

Some (outdated) aircraft engines had a fixed crankshaft and rotating cylinders in a star configuration - rotary engine.

In the Wankel engine, the rotors drive the eccentic shaft, which can be considered the equivalent of the crankshaft in a piston engine.

Crankshaft is also the name of a comic strip about an old, curmudgeonly bus driver