Shredding, shred, shredder, or shredders may refer to:

Equipment

Paper shredder A paper shredder is a mechanical device used to cut sheets of paper into either strips or fine particles. Government organizations, businesses, and private individuals use shredders to destroy private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive docum ...

Scrap metal shredder A scrap metal shredder, also sometimes referred to as a metal scrap shredder, is a machine used for reducing the size of scrap metal. Scrap metal shredders come in many different variations and sizes. Applications Some examples of scrap metal m ...

Woodchipper A tree chipper or woodchipper is a machine used for reducing wood (generally tree limbs or trunks) into smaller woodchips. They are often portable, being mounted on wheels on frames suitable for towing behind a truck or van. Power is general ...

, or tree shredder

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

* ''Shred'' (film), a 2008 film by David Mitchell * ''Shredder'' (film), a 2003 film by Craig Donald Carlson and Greg Huson

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

Shred guitar Shred guitar or shredding is a virtuoso lead guitar solo playing style for the guitar, based on various advanced and complex playing techniques, particularly rapid passages and advanced performance effects. Shred guitar includes "fast alternate pi ...

, a speed-based virtuoso style of electric guitar playing * Shredder (''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles''), a supervillain in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise *

Shredders (music group) Shredders is an American hip hop group from Minneapolis, Minnesota. It consists of rappers P.O.S and Sims and producers Lazerbeak and Paper Tiger. The four are part of the Doomtree collective. The group's debut studio album, ''Dangerous Jumps'' ...

, an American hip hop group * ''Shredder'', a 1973 album by

The Wackers The Wackers was an American folk rock band formed in 1970, out of another band, Roxy. Though short-lived the band was moderately successful, releasing three studio albums. Career Singer/songwriter Bob Segarini and multi-instrumentalist Randy ...

* "Shredder", a 1998 single by Christopher Lawrence

Computing

Shred (Unix) is a command on Unix-like operating systems that can be used to securely delete files and devices so that it is extremely difficult to recover them, even with specialized hardware and technology; assuming it's even possible to recover the file ...

, a Unix command for secure file deletion * Shredder (software), a chess program developed by Stefan Meyer-Kahlen * Shredding (data remanence), overwriting storage media with new data to erase it * Shredding (disassembling genomic data), in bioinformatics * Shredder, the alpha build of

Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Thunderbird is a free and open-source cross-platform email client, personal information manager, news client, RSS and chat client developed by the Mozilla Foundation and operated by subsidiary MZLA Technologies Corporation. The projec ...

Sports

* Shredding, the activity of street skateboarding * Shredding, an activity of

skiing Skiing is the use of skis to glide on snow. Variations of purpose include basic transport, a recreational activity, or a competitive winter sport. Many types of competitive skiing events are recognized by the International Olympic Committee ( ...

* Shredding, an activity of snowboarding * Shredding, an activity of mountain biking * Shredding, an activity of

bodybuilding Bodybuilding is the use of progressive resistance exercise to control and develop one's muscles (muscle building) by muscle hypertrophy for aesthetic purposes. It is distinct from similar activities such as powerlifting because it focuses ...

also known as cutting

Other uses

* Shred Optics, a manufacturer of sunglasses, helmets, and goggles * Shredder, an inflatable whitewater craft *

Shredding (tree-pruning technique) Shredding is a traditional European method of tree pruning by which all side branches are removed repeatedly leaving the main trunk and top growth. In the Middle Ages the practice was common throughout Europe, but it is now rare, found mainly in cen ...