Strip or Stripping may refer to:

Places

* Aouzou Strip, a strip of land following the northern border of Chad that had been claimed and occupied by Libya *

Caprivi Strip The Caprivi Strip, also known simply as Caprivi, is a geographic salient protruding from the northeastern corner of Namibia. It is surrounded by Botswana to the south and Angola and Zambia to the north. Namibia, Botswana and Zambia meet at a ...

, narrow strip of land extending from the Okavango Region of Namibia to the Zambezi River *

Gaza Strip The Gaza Strip (;The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) – p.761 "Gaza Strip /'gɑːzə/ a strip of territory under the control of the Palestinian National Authority and Hamas, on the SE Mediterranean coast including the town of Gaza. ...

, narrow strip of land along the Mediterranean, in the Middle East *

Las Vegas Strip The Las Vegas Strip is a stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard South in Clark County, Nevada, that is known for its concentration of resort hotels and casinos. The Strip, as it is known, is about long, and is immediately south of the Las Vegas cit ...

, section of Las Vegas Boulevard South *

Strip District, Pittsburgh The Strip District is a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. It is a one-half square mile area of land northeast of the central business district bordered to the north by the Allegheny River and to the south by portions of the ...

, a neighborhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania * Sunset Strip, 1.5-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, US * Tarfaya Strip (Cape Juby Strip), a strip of land between Morocco and the Western Sahara along the Atlantic ocean * Toledo strip, formerly contested area between Ohio and Michigan; see Toledo War

Arts, entertainment, and media

Comics

Strip (comics) Marvel UK was an imprint of Marvel Comics formed in 1972 to reprint US-produced stories for the British weekly comic market. Marvel UK later produced original material by British creators such as Alan Moore, John Wagner, Dave Gibbons, Steve ...

, a comics anthology published by Marvel UK in 1990 * Comic strip, a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative *

Sunday strip The Sunday comics or Sunday strip is the comic strip section carried in most western newspapers, almost always in color. Many newspaper readers called this section the Sunday funnies, the funny papers or simply the funnies. The first US newspa ...

, a newspaper comic-strip format

Erotic dancing

Striptease A striptease is an erotic or exotic dance in which the performer gradually undresses, either partly or completely, in a seductive and sexually suggestive manner. The person who performs a striptease is commonly known as a " stripper" or an " ...

, act of removing one's clothes slowly to music **

Strip club A strip club is a venue where strippers provide adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances. Strip clubs typically adopt a nightclub or bar style, and can also adopt a theatre or cabaret-style. Am ...

, a venue that regularly provides adult entertainment, predominantly in the form of striptease or other erotic or exotic dances ** Stripper, a professional erotic dancer who performs a contemporary form of striptease

Films

Filmstrip The filmstrip is a form of still image instructional multimedia, once commonly used by educators in primary and secondary schools (K-12), overtaken at the end of the 1980s by newer and increasingly lower-cost full-motion videocassettes and la ...

, a form of still image instructional multimedia, once commonly used by educators in primary and secondary schools (K-12) * ''Stripping'' (film), a 2002 Finnish film * ''The Strip'' (1951 film), a 1951 film directed by László Kardos

Music

* ''Strip'' (Adam Ant album), 1983 pop rock album * ''Strip'' (The Chameleons album), 2000 post-punk band album * "Strip" (Chris Brown song), a 2011 song by Chris Brown * "The Strip" (Scarlet Pleasure song), 2014

Television

* ''The Strip'' (Australian TV series), a 2008 Australian television drama series * ''The Strip'' (New Zealand TV series), 2002–2003 New Zealand television series * "The Strip" (''The O.C.''), a 2004 episode of ''The O.C.'' television series * ''The Strip'' (U.S. TV series), 1999–2000 American action drama series * Strip programming, a practice of running a television series at the same time daily

Aviation

Airstrip An aerodrome (Commonwealth English) or airdrome (American English) is a location from which aircraft flight operations take place, regardless of whether they involve air cargo, passengers, or neither, and regardless of whether it is for publ ...

, a kind of airport that consists only of a runway with perhaps fueling equipment * Landing strip or

runway According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft". Runways may be a man-made surface (often asphalt concrete, as ...

, an area for the landing and takeoff of aircraft

Science and technology

* Strip (Unix), Unix computer command program * Stripping (chemistry), removal of one or more components from a liquid stream to a vapor stream * Stripping (fiber), the act of removing the protective polymer coating around optical fiber in preparation for fusion splicing *

Stripping (printing) Within the commercial printing industry, the job of stripping involves arranging and joining film negatives as part of the process of preparing printing plates. In the UK, the same operation is termed "planning" and film positives are used, rathe ...

, preparation & assembly of printing negatives in pre-press * Paint stripper, a solvent that removes paint * Triangle strip, method for rendering computer graphics * Vein stripping, a surgical procedure * Weatherstripping, the process of sealing openings such as doors, windows, and trunks from the elements; also, the sealant materials used

Other uses

* Strip bond, a financial instrument * Strip (options), an option trading strategy in finance *

Strip steak The strip steak (sirloin in Britain, Australia, and South Africa) is a cut of beef steaks from the short loin of a cow. It consists of a muscle that does little work, the longissimus, making the meat particularly tender, although not as ten ...

, type of beef steak *

Stripping (linguistics) Stripping or bare argument ellipsis is an ellipsis mechanism that elides everything from a clause except one constituent. It occurs exclusively in the non-initial conjuncts of coordinate structures. One prominent analysis of stripping sees it as a p ...

, an ellipsis mechanism that elides everything from a clause except one constituent * Football strip, standard attire worn while playing association football * Landing strip, or French waxing, a type of

bikini waxing Bikini waxing is the removal of pubic hair using a special wax, which can be hot or cold, that adheres to hairs and pulls them out when the wax is removed quickly from the skin, usually with a cloth strip. While the practice is mainly associ ...