Strike may refer to:

People

Strike (surname) Strike is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Alice Strike (1896–2004), last surviving female Canadian military World War I veteran *Anne Wafula Strike (born 1969), British wheelchair racer *Cormoran Strike, a fictional detective ...

* Hobart Huson, author of several drug related books

Physical confrontation or removal

Strike (attack) A strike is a directed, forceful physical attack with either a part of the human body or with a handheld object (such as a melee weapon), intended to cause blunt trauma, blunt or penetrating trauma upon an opponent. There are many different var ...

, 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 Striking the colors—meaning lowering the flag (the " colors") that signifies a ship's or garrison's allegiance—is a universally recognized indication of surrender, particularly for ships at sea. For a ship, surrender is dated from the time ...

, to haul down a flag to indicate surrender *

Strikethrough Strikethrough, or strikeout, is a typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through their center, resulting in , sometimes an X or a forward slash is typed over the top instead of using a horizontal line. Strike-through was u ...

, 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 A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and ...

or other such services * YouTube copyright strike, a copyright policing practice used by YouTube

Refusal to work or perform

* Capital strike, refusal to invest in an economy *

Hunger strike A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance where participants fasting, fast as an act of political protest, usually with the objective of achieving a specific goal, such as a policy change. Hunger strikers that do not take fluids are ...

, 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 Strike action, also called labor strike, labour strike in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to Working class, work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Str ...

, 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

Science and technology

Strike (unit) A strike is an obsolete unit of volume once used for dry measure Dry or dryness most often refers to: * Lack of rainfall, which may refer to ** Arid regions **Drought * Dry or dry area, relating to legal prohibition of selling, serving, or imbi ...

, an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels * Electric strike, access control device used for doors *

Lightning strike A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning ...

, electrical discharges caused by lightning *

Strike and dip In geology, strike and dip is a measurement convention used to describe the plane orientation or Attitude (geometry), attitude of a Plane (geometry), planar Geology, geologic feature. A feature's strike is the azimuth of an imagined horizontal ...

, measure of the orientation of a geologic feature *"Striking",

cutting Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for wikt:cut, cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the sca ...

parts of a plant for propagation *

Striking clock A striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell, gong, or other audible device. In 12-hour striking, used most commonly in striking clocks today, the clock strikes once at 1:00 am, twice at 2:00 am, continuing in this way up t ...

, clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong

Sport

Strike (bowling) In bowling, a ''strike'' means that all of the pins have been knocked down on the first ball A ball is a round object (usually spherical, but sometimes ovoid) with several uses. It is used in ball games, where the play of the game foll ...

, a term used in bowling *Strike, a term used in

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

(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 In baseball, the strike zone is the area of space through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike even if the batter does not swing. The strike zone is defined as the volume of space above home plate and between the batter's kne ...

, a term used in baseball *

Moraingy Moraingy is an unarmed, bare-fisted striking style of traditional martial art from Madagascar. Participation in this combat form was originally limited to young men, providing them opportunity to gain prestige and test their abilities, while al ...

bare-fisted striking

Arts, entertainment, and media

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, a 1989 episode of the American children's comedy science fiction sitcom '' Small Wonder'' *"Strike!", a 2020 episode of the TV series ''

Pocoyo ''Pocoyo'' ( in Spanish and stylised as ''POCOYO'') is an animated interactive preschool comedy television series created by David Cantolla, Luis Gallego, and Guillermo García Carsí, that premiered on 7 January 2005 on La 2. The series was ...

Video games

* ''Strike'' (video game series), video games released during 1991–1997 by Electronic Arts *Strikes, cooperative multiplayer modes in the video game ''Destiny'' (video game), 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

Other uses

*<strike>, the HTML tag * 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