Stick or the stick may refer to:

Thin elongated objects

Twig A twig is a thin, often short, branch of a tree or bush. The buds on the twig are an important diagnostic characteristic, as are the abscission scars where the leaves have fallen away. The color, texture, and patterning of the twig bark are ...

* The weapon used in

stick fighting Stick-fighting, stickfighting, or stick fighting is a variety of martial arts which use simple long, slender, blunt, hand-held, generally wooden "sticks" for fighting, such as a gun staff, bō, jō, walking stick, baston, arnis sticks or simil ...

Walking stick A walking stick or walking cane is a device used primarily to aid walking, provide postural stability or support, or assist in maintaining a good posture. Some designs also serve as a fashion accessory, or are used for self-defense. Walking sti ...

, a device to facilitate balancing while walking *

Shepherd's crook A shepherd's crook is a long and sturdy stick with a hook at one end, often with the point flared outwards, used by a shepherd to manage and sometimes catch sheep. In addition, the crook may aid in defending against attack by predators. Wh ...

Swagger stick A swagger stick is a short stick or riding crop usually carried by a uniformed person as a symbol of authority. A swagger stick is shorter than a staff or cane, and is usually made from rattan. Its use derives from the vine staff carried by Rom ...

Digging stick A digging stick, sometimes called a yam stick, is a wooden implement used primarily by subsistence-based cultures to dig out underground food such as roots and tubers, tilling the soil, or burrowing animals and anthills. It is a term used in ar ...

Swizzle stick A swizzle stick is a small stick used to stir drinks. The original swizzle sticks were created in the 18th century at a rum plantation in the West Indies using the branch of the ''Quararibea turbinata'' (also known as the "Swizzle stick tree"). ...

, used to stir drinks

Sports

Bandy stick Bandy is a winter sport and ball sport played by two teams wearing ice skates on a large ice surface (either indoors or outdoors) while using sticks to direct a ball into the opposing team's goal. The international governing body for bandy is ...

, used in bandy *

Cue stick A cue stick (or simply cue, more specifically billiards cue, pool cue, or snooker cue) is an item of sporting equipment essential to the games of pool, snooker and carom billiards. It is used to strike a ball, usually the . Cues are tapered stick ...

, used in pool, snooker and carom billiards *

Hockey stick A hockey stick is a piece of sports equipment used by the players in all the forms of hockey to move the ball or puck (as appropriate to the type of hockey) either to push, pull, hit, strike, flick, steer, launch or stop the ball/ puck during pla ...

, used in hockey **

Field hockey stick In field hockey, each player carries a stick and cannot take part in the game without it. The stick for an adult is usually in the range 89–95 cm (35–38 in) long. A maximum length of 105 cm (41.3") was stipulated from 2015. Th ...

Ice hockey stick An ice hockey stick is a piece of equipment used in ice hockey to shoot, pass, and carry the puck across the ice. Ice hockey sticks are approximately 150–200 cm long, composed of a long, slender shaft with a flat extension at one end c ...

Lacrosse stick A lacrosse stick or crosse is used to play the sport of lacrosse. Players use the lacrosse stick to handle the ball and to strike or "check" opposing players' sticks, causing them to drop the ball. The head of a lacrosse stick is roughly triangular ...

, used in lacrosse * The rods, called "the sticks" used to measure distance by the

chain crew In gridiron football, the chain crew (commonly known as the "chain gang") is a crew that manages signal poles on one of the sidelines. There are three primary signal poles: the "rear rod" that marks the beginning of the current set of downs, the ...

in American football

Music

Drum stick A drum stick (or drumstick) is a type of percussion mallet used particularly for playing snare drum, drum kit, and some other percussion instruments, and particularly for playing unpitched percussion. Specialized beaters used on some other pe ...

, used to strike drums * Part of a bow used to play a string instrument *

Chapman Stick The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and is used to play bass lines, melody lines, ...

, an electric musical instrument in the guitar family *

Percussion stick Struck idiophones is one of the categories of idiophones (that is, any musical instrument that creates sound primarily by the instrument as a whole vibrating—without the use of strings or membranes) that are found in the Hornbostel-Sachs system ...

, a struck percussion instrument * ''

Led Zeppelin IV The untitled fourth studio album by the English rock band Led Zeppelin, commonly known as ''Led Zeppelin IV'', was released on 8 November 1971 by Atlantic Records. It was produced by guitarist Jimmy Page and recorded between December 1970 and Fe ...

'', a 1971 album sometimes referred to as ''Sticks'' * ''The Sticks'' (album), a 2012 album by Canadian band Mother Mother * ''Sticks'', a 2019 EP by Bish included within the album ''

Carrots and Sticks The phrase "carrot and stick" is a metaphor for the use of a combination of Reward system, reward and Punishment (psychology), punishment to Incentivisation, induce a desired behaviour. In politics, "carrot or stick" sometimes refers to the Real ...

'' * "The Sticks", a track from the 1966 Cannonball Adderley Quintet album ''

Cannonball in Japan ''Cannonball in Japan'' is a live recording by the Cannonball Adderley Quintet at the Sankei Hall in Tokyo which was first released on the Japanese Capitol label in 1966 before being more widely released on CD in 1990.manual transmission A manual transmission (MT), also known as manual gearbox, standard transmission (in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States), or stick shift (in the United States), is a multi-speed motor vehicle transmission (mechanics), transmission ...

Gear stick A gear stick (rarely spelled ''gearstick''), gear lever (both UK English), gearshift or shifter (both U.S. English), more formally known as a transmission lever, is a metal lever attached to the transmission of an automobile. The term ''gear sti ...

, used in a manual transmission-equipped automobile to change gears * Control or

centre stick A centre stick (or center stick in the United States), or simply control stick is an aircraft cockpit arrangement where the control column (or joystick) is located in the center of the cockpit between the pilots or between the pilot's legs. Since ...

, an aircraft cockpit arrangement

Geography

Boondocks The boondocks is an American expression from the Tagalog (Filipino) word ''bundók'' ("mountain"). It originally referred to a remote rural area, but now, is often applied to an out-of-the-way area considered backward and unsophisticated by c ...

, also called "the sticks", a remote area *

Candlestick Park Candlestick Park was an outdoor stadium on the West Coast of the United States, located in San Francisco's Bayview Heights area. The stadium was originally the home of Major League Baseball's San Francisco Giants, who played there from 1960 un ...

, a defunct stadium in San Francisco, nicknamed "The Stick"

Fiction

Stick (comics) Stick is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics, depicted as a blind sensei and leader of the Chaste who trained Matt Murdock and Elektra Natchios. Stick appeared in the 2005 film '' Elektra'' portraye ...

, the teacher of Daredevil and Elektra in Marvel Comics * ''Stick'' (novel), a 1983 novel by

Elmore Leonard Elmore John Leonard Jr. (October 11, 1925August 20, 2013) was an American novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. His earliest novels, published in the 1950s, were Westerns, but he went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thri ...

* "Sticks" (short story), a 1974 short story by Karl Edward Wagner

Film and TV

* ''Sticks'' (film), a 2001 film starring Justina Machado and Lillo Brancato * ''Stick'' (film), a 1985 Burt Reynolds film * ''The Stick'', a 1987 film directed by

Darrell Roodt Darrell James Roodt (born in Johannesburg, 28 April 1962) is a South African film director, screenwriter and producer. He is probably most well known for his 1992 film '' Sarafina!'' which starred actress Whoopi Goldberg. Also regarded as South ...

, a Marvel Comics character *

Stick Stickly Stick Stickly is a fictional character created by Agi Fodor and Karen Kuflik, and appearing on Nickelodeon. He is a popsicle stick with googly eyes, a jelly bean nose, and a small mouth. He was the host of '' Nick in the Afternoon'', a programm ...

, a Nickelodeon character * Stick Bernard, protagonist of the anime series ''

Genesis Climber MOSPEADA (literally "Armored Genesis MOSPEADA") is an anime science fiction series created by Shinji Aramaki and Hideki Kakinuma. The 25-episode television series ran from late 1983 to early 1984 in Japan. MOSPEADA stands for Military Operation Soldi ...

'' * Sticks the Badger, a character from the 2014 TV series ''Sonic Boom''

People

* Stick Elliott (1934–1980), American stock car driver *

Stephen Kernahan Stephen Scott Kernahan (born 1 September 1963) is a former Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and for the Glenelg Football Club in the South Australian National Football ...

(born 1963), Australian footballer nicknamed "Sticks" *

Gene Michael Eugene Richard Michael (June 2, 1938 – September 7, 2017), known as Stick, was an American professional baseball player, coach, scout, manager and team executive. He played in Major League Baseball as a shortstop from 1966 to 1975, most promine ...

(born 1938), American baseball player nicknamed "Stick" *

Norm Provan Norman Douglas Somerville Provan (18 December 1932 – 13 October 2021) was an Australian professional rugby league footballer and coach. Also nicknamed "Sticks", he was a second-row forward with the St George Dragons during the first ten of t ...

(born 1932), Australian former rugby league footballer and coach nicknamed "Sticks" *

Easton Stick Easton Michael Stick (born September 15, 1995) is an American football quarterback for the Los Angeles Chargers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at North Dakota State. College career He graduated from Creighton ...

(born 1995), American football quarterback *

Jan Stick Jan Stick is a Canadian politician, who was elected to in the Yukon Legislative Assembly in the 2011 election. She represented the electoral district of Riverdale South as a member of the Yukon New Democratic Party caucus until her defeat in th ...

, 21st century Canadian politician *

Josh Stick Joshua Stick (born 12 February 1980) is a former football (soccer) player who represented New Zealand at international level. He represented New Zealand at the 1997 FIFA U-17 World Championship, playing in all three group games. Stick made a s ...

(born 1980), New Zealand former footballer * Leonard Stick (1892–1979), Canadian politician * Mzwandile Stick (born 1984), South African rugby union player and coach

Food

Pretzel sticks A pretzel (), from German pronunciation, standard german: Breze(l) ( and French / Alsatian: ''Bretzel'') is a type of baked bread made from dough that is commonly shaped into a knot. The traditional pretzel shape is a distinctive symmetrical ...

, pub snacks *

Breadstick Breadsticks, also known as grissini, grissino or dipping sticks, (''ghërsin'' in ) are generally pencil-sized sticks of crisp, dry baked bread that originated in Piedmont, a region of Italy. There is also a soft-baked breadstick version popula ...

, dry baked bread *

Fish sticks Fish fingers (British English) or fish sticks (American English) are a processed food made using a whitefish, such as cod, hake, haddock, shark or pollock, which has been battered or breaded. They are commonly available in the frozen food se ...

, processed food *

Crab stick Crab sticks, krab sticks, imitation crab (meat), or seafood sticks (originally known as ''kanikama'' in Japan) are a type of seafood made of starch and finely pulverized white fish ('' surimi'') that has been shaped and cured to resemble the l ...

, seafood *

Mozzarella sticks Mozzarella sticks are elongated pieces of battered or breaded mozzarella, usually served as hors d'oeuvre. Origins The history of frying cheese in a batter dates back to at least 1393 in Medieval France, when a recipe for fried cheese stic ...

, hors d'oeuvre *

Musk stick Musk sticks are a popular confection in Australia, available from many different suppliers. They consist of a semi-soft stick of fondant, usually pink, and often extruded with a ridged cross-section in the shape of a star. Their flavour and arom ...

, confection *

Cinnamon sticks Cinnamon is a spice obtained from the inner bark of several tree species from the genus ''Cinnamomum''. Cinnamon is used mainly as an aromatic condiment and flavouring additive in a wide variety of cuisines, sweet and savoury dishes, breakfas ...

, spice

Other uses

* Stick (punishment), a rod used for corporal punishment *

Stick (unit) The stick may refer to several separate units, depending on the item being measured. Length In typography, the stick, stickful, or was an inexact length based on the size of the various composing sticks used by newspaper editing, editors to asse ...

, several units of measurement * Stick, a British slang term for abuse, insult, or denigration * A group of

paratrooper A paratrooper is a military parachutist—someone trained to parachute into a military operation, and usually functioning as part of an airborne force. Military parachutists (troops) and parachutes were first used on a large scale during World ...

s in a single aircraft * A group of soldiers corresponding to a

section Section, Sectioning or Sectioned may refer to: Arts, entertainment and media * Section (music), a complete, but not independent, musical idea * Section (typography), a subdivision, especially of a chapter, in books and documents ** Section sign ...