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A shark is a cartilaginous, usually carnivorous fish.
Shark, Sharks or The Shark may also refer to:
Animals
- Some bony fishes from the family Cyprinidae; see freshwater shark
- Shark (moth), the noctuid moth species Cucullia umbratica
Geography
- Shark, Arkansas, a community in the United States
- Shark Island (disambiguation)
Computing
- Shark (or Sharkbase), an MS-DOS or DOSBox database (dbf) application
- Shark, a Mac OS X software development optimization tool
- IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS), or Shark
- Soft Hard Real-Time Kernel (S.Ha.R.K. or SHaRK), a component-based real-time kernel architecture
- Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding or ShapeWriter, a data input method
Arts and entertainment
Film
- The Shark (1920 film), a lost silent Fox film
- Shark! (film), a 1969 American action film directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Burt Reynolds
- Shark (2000 film), a 2000 horror film
- Shark: Mind of a Demon, a 2006 documentary by Fabien Cousteau that aired on CBS
Television
- Shark (2013 TV series), a South Korean KBS television series
- Shark (TV series), a CBS legal drama starring James Woods that aired from 2006-2008
- Shark (BBC TV series), 2015 documentary series
- Shark, a character in the Adult Swim series 12 oz. Mouse
Music
- Sharks (band formed 2007), a British punk rock band
- The Sharks, an American new wave band
- Sharks (band formed 1972), a British rock band
- Sharks (album), an album by rock band UFO
- "Sharks" a song by Test Icicles from the album For Screening Purposes Only
In print
- Shark (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
- Shark (novel), by British writer Will Self
- The Sharks (novel), by Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe
Sculpture
- The Headington Shark (or just The Shark), a 1986 sculpture in Headington, Oxford, England
In the military
- Blackburn Shark, a British carrier-borne torpedo bomber
- HMS Shark, various British Royal Navy ships
- USS Shark, various American ships
- The Sharks (Royal Navy), the Royal Navy's Helicopter Display Team (1975-1992)
- HNoMS Svenner (G03), a Royal Norwegian Navy World War II destroyer launched as HMS Shark (G03)
- PNS Hangor (S131) (1970-2006), a Pakistan Navy submarine nicknamed "The Shark"
- SHARK, a World War II codename for a German naval cipher using the Enigma machine
Vehicles and vessels
- Dudek Shark, a Polish paraglider design
- Fly-Fan Shark, a Slovak light aircraft design
- Shark, a speedboat used for Circle Line Downtown
- Shark 24 class yacht
- Shark, a version of the Rotopress garbage truck
People
- The Shark (nickname), a list of people
- The Shark, alias of Michele Sindona, a convicted felon
- "The Shark", a ring name of professional wrestler John Tenta
- Card shark, a term for a hustler or cheat, but sometimes also refers to an honest, skilled player or card trick performer
- Loan shark, one who offers unsecured loans at high interest rates
- Pool shark (disambiguation), a pool/billiards hustler
Sports teams
- Sharks (Super Rugby), a South African rugby union team
- Sharks F.C., a Nigerian football team
- Cronulla Sharks, an Australian rugby league team
- Bucks County Sharks, an American rugby league team
- Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, an English women's rugby union team
- East Fremantle Sharks, an Australian Rules football team
- Hull F.C., an English rugby league team once known as Hull Sharks
- Jacksonville Sharks, the reigning champion of the Arena Football League
- Los Angeles Sharks, a World Hockey Association team (1972-1974)
- Nova Southeastern Sharks, the NCAA II athletics teams of Nova Southeastern University
- Orlando Sharks, a U.S. Indoor Soccer team
- Sale Sharks, an English rugby union team
- San Jose Sharks, a U.S. National Hockey League team
- Shanghai Sharks, a Chinese basketball team
- Sheffield Sharks, an English basketball team
- Worcester Sharks, a U.S. American Hockey League team
Other uses
- Shark (helmet manufacturer)
- Shark Energy Drink, manufactured in Thailand
- SHARK, a block cipher identified as one of the predecessors of Rijndael
- Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK), an animal rights organization
See also
- Shark! Shark! an Intellivision video game released in 1982
- Akula (Shark), a Typhoon class submarine
- SHARC (disambiguation)
- Sharking, a sexual fetish that involves debagging
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