Strike

• Strike (surname)
• Hobart Huson, author of several drug related books

• 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
• Bridge strike, collision of an over-height vehicle to a bridge.
• 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
• YouTube copyright strike, a copyright policing practice used by YouTube

• Capital strike, refusal to invest in an economy
• Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
• 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
• Sex strike, refusal to engage in sexual activity to challenge a societal dispute
• Strike action, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
• Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class

• Strike (unit), an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels
• Electric strike, access control device used for doors
• Lightning strike, electrical discharges caused by lightning
• Strike and dip, measure of the orientation of a geologic feature
• "Striking", cutting parts of a plant for propagation
• Striking clock, clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong

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

Films

• Strike (1912 film), a lost Australian film
• Strike (1925 film), a silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein
• Strike! (1998 film), a Canadian-American comedy film written and directed by Sarah Kernochan
• Strike (2006 film), a Polish-language film directed by Volker Schlöndorff
• Strike (2018 film), a stop-motion animated film directed by Trevor Hardy

Music

• Strike (band), British dance band formed in 1994
• Strike (percussion group), New Zealand group formed in 1993
• "Strike (Holster)" a 2023 song by American rapper Lil Yachty
• Strikes (album), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979

Television

• Strike (TV series), a BBC series based on the Cormoran Strike detective book series
• "The Strike" (Seinfeld), 166th episode of the NBC sitcom; it aired in December 1997
• "The Strike", 1988 episode of The Comic Strip Presents
• The Strike, an 1989 episode of the American children's comedy science fiction sitcom Small Wonder

Video games

• Strike (video game series), video games released during 1991–1997 by Electronic Arts
• Strikes, cooperative multiplayer modes in the video game Destiny, similar to a military strike

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Strike, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Scyther
• S.T.R.I.K.E., fictional counter-terrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe
• Strike Entertainment, film production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham and Thomas Bliss, associated with Universal Studios
• Kamen Rider Strike, a Kamen Rider Dragon Knight character

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• 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