Any continuous strictly monotonic function F : R ≥0 → R with F (0) = 0 and F (t) → ∞ for t → ∞ gives rise to a topological rotational spread of PG (3, R); this spread is non-regular, if F is not linear. The action of the group SO 3 (R) on this spread yields a topological parallelism of PG (3, R). The article also contains a short investigation on rotational spreads. Moreover, we construct a parallelism P 72 of PG (3, R) which is composed of piecewise regular spreads each consisting of two segments which are tacked together along a common regulus. Using Klein's correspondence of line geometry and the Thas-Walker construction we represent every parallel class of P 72 via two parallel half-lines being noninterior to a given sphere in R 3 . The parallelism P 72 contains exactly one regular spread, all other members of P 72 are piecewise regular spreads with two segments. However, P 72 is not topological.Mathematics Subject Classification (2010). 51H10, 51A15, 51A40, 51M30.