Strike

Strike may refer to:

Refusal to work or perform

• Strike action, also known as a walkout, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
• General strike, strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country
• Culture strike, refusal of artists or art institutions (arts organizations, festivals etc.) to respectively produce and show art
• Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
• Prison strike, strike taking place inside a prison, involving either a hunger strike or a prison work strike
• Rent strike, when a group of tenants en masse agrees to refuse to pay rent until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord
• Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class

Physical confrontation or removal

• Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
• Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected or a confirmed enemy ground position
• Bird strike, collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft
• Military strike, limited attack on a specified target
• Striking the colors, to haul down a flag to indicate surrender
• Strikethrough, typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through the center of them
• Utility strike, during an excavation accidentally hitting or damaging buried pipes or wires belonging to a public utility or other such services

People

• Strike (surname)

Art, media, and entertainment

Entertainment companies

• Strike Entertainment, film production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham and Thomas Bliss, associated with Universal Studios

Fictional entities

• S.T.R.I.K.E., fictional, counterterrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe

Film

• Strike (1925 film), 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein
• Strike!, a 1998 film
• Strike (2006 film), Polish language film produced by a mainly German group, released in 2006 and directed by Volker Schlöndorff

Games

• Strike series, video games released during 1991–1997 by Electronic Arts

Literature

• "Strikebreaker" (short story), science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories

Music

Groups

• Strike (band), British dance band formed in 1994

Albums

• Strikes (album), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979

Songs

• "Strike", a 1984 song by American drummer Keith LeBlanc
• "The Lightning Strike", a 2008 song by Snow Patrol

Television

• "The Strike", 1988 episode of The Comic Strip Presents
• The Strike (Seinfeld), 166th episode of the NBC sitcom; it aired on December 18, 1997

Theater

• "Strike the set" (theatrical), process in set construction of dismantling, storing or discarding the materials used

Newspaper

• STRIKE!, a bi-monthly newspaper for politics, philosophy and art

Economics

• Strike price, fixed price at which the owner of an option can purchase, in the case of a call, or sell, in the case of a put, the underlying security or commodity
• "Strike" (eBay), arbitrary penalty marker used by sellers against buyers for alleged non-payment of items

Law

• Strike from the record, request to erase previous testimony or a court proceeding from the record

Science and technology

• Electric strike, access control device used for doors
• Lightning strike, electrical discharges caused by lightning, typically during thunderstorms
• Strike and dip, measure of the orientation of a geologic feature
• Striking clock, clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong
• "Striking", cutting parts of a plant for propagation

Sports

• Strike (bowling), term used in bowling
• Strike zone, term used in baseball
• "On strike", term used in cricket
• Strike, a term used in Association football (soccer) to mean an accurate, driven shot kicked using the laces of the boot

See also

• All pages with titles containing Strike
• Gold Strike (disambiguation)
• Strike, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Scyther
• Striker (disambiguation)
• <strike>, the HTML tag