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Streaking is the act of running, often naked, through a public area for publicity, as a
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. Streaking is often associated with sporting events, but can occur in more secluded areas. Streakers are often pursued by sporting officials or the police.


Definitions and etymology

The word has been used in its modern sense only since the 1960s. Before that, ''to streak'' in English since 1768 meant "to go quickly, to rush, to run at full speed", and was a re-spelling of ''streek'': "to go quickly" (c.1380); this in turn was originally a northern
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variant of ''stretch'' (c. 1250). In December 1973, a graduate of
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in
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wrote to ''
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'' magazine that the term "streaking" was coined because the nude students ran primarily during the winter months of January and February, and "unless one appeared as a streak against the landscape, the Minnesota winter was triumphant and streaker became statue.""Letters", ''Time'', 31 December 1973. The school's newspaper, ''The Carletonian'', used the term "streaking" as early as 1967, but initially in negative terms: "Examples of arleton's social problemsare the large number of departing female students, the rise of class spirit, low grades, streaking, destruction, drinking, and the popularity of rock dances."


History

Historical forerunners of modern-day streakers include the neo- Adamites who travelled naked through towns and villages in
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Europe, and the 17th-century
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, who went nude through the
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with a burning brazier on his head. At 7:00 PM on 5 July 1799, a man was arrested at the Mansion House, London, and sent to the
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. He confirmed that he had accepted a wager of 10 guineas (equal to £ today) to run naked from Cornhill to Cheapside. Fines of between £10 and £50 were imposed on streakers by British and Irish magistrates in the early 1970s. The offences used for prosecution were typically minor, such as the violation of park regulations. Nevertheless, the chief law in force against streaking in
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at that time remained the 16th-century
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, for which the punishment in 1550 had been whipping. The first recorded incident of streaking by a college student in the United States occurred in 1804 at Washington College (now
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) when senior George William Crump was arrested for running naked through
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, where the university is located. Crump was suspended for the academic session, but later went on to become a U.S. Congressman. In June 1973, the press reported on a "streaking" trend at Michigan State University. In December 1973, ''
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'' magazine called streaking "a growing Los Angeles-area fad" that was "catching on among college students and other groups". A letter writer responded, "Let it be known that streakers have plagued the campus police at
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for the past decade", pointing out that a group of University of Notre Dame students sponsored a "Streakers' Olympics" in 1972. In February 1974, the press began calling it a "streaking epidemic." By the first week of March, college campuses across the country were competing to set streaking records. On March 11, 1974, several Americans imported streaking to Japan, where a series of copycat incidents occurred over the next month. The prominence of streaking in 1974 has been linked both to the
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and a conservative backlash against
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and the campus protests of the late 1960s and early 1970s.


On college campuses

Colleges and universities with documented traditions of campus streaking include the
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(Polar Bear run),
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(Naked Week), Oberlin College,
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,
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, and
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(the "Kingdom Run").
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has two streaking-related challenges: The Ledyard Challenge, in which students swim naked across the Connecticut River and run nude back across the bridge, and the Blue Light Challenge, in which streaking students attempt to press the alarm on every one of the campus's blue light emergency phones. As of 2005, a Thursday Night Streaking Club regularly streaks at various events and public places. In 1986, the
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's Naked Mile celebrated the last day of class with a group streak across campus along an approximate one-mile path. At the height of its popularity in the late 1990s, between 500 and 800 students participated, including several hundred females. Over 1,400 students participated one year and well over one thousand during another year. However, due to enforcement of public indecency laws and pressure from administration officials concerned about increasing spectator crowds and videotaping, participation declined. By 2001, a mere 24 students participated, signaling the effective end of the Naked Mile. Students were warned by college administrators that streakers would be arrested and required to register as sex offenders for life under Megan's Law. The students at
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held midnight "Pajama Parade" events in 1862, 1914 and several times in the 1950s. The real streaking tradition, which was nationally popular since 1973, arrived at the campus in the 1990s in the form of a nocturnal lap around the
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known as the "Naked Nott Run." To celebrate the school year's first night of heavy rainfall, a well-known tradition called "First Rain" is enacted at the
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by students who for the entirety of the day to midnight, run around campus nearly or completely nude. Beginning at Porter, the run proceeds throughout the other colleges. At the
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, a Naked Bike Ride is traditionally held at midnight at the end of each semester. Participants run, bike, unicycle, carry kayaks, push shopping carts, or pull sleds. The topic of the Naked Bike Ride has been a touchy one among UVM police, who have tried several times to do away with it. In 2011, Interim President John Bramley ended school funding for the event. This resulted in the student body creating the UVM Green Caps, a group of student volunteers stationed around campus throughout the evening for the safety of students. At the
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, members of the Alpha Phi Omega fraternity streak around the campus in an annual event known as the
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. The run started in 1977 to protest the banning of the movie, "Hubad na Bayani", which depicted human rights abuses in the martial law era. The event continued to occur as a protest action. In 2011, the first nudist race took place at the
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(Spain). At the
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it is considered a tradition to streak the lawn.


In sport

The first instance of streaking in English football took place on 23 March 1974. Prior to the start of the league match between
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and Manchester City at
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, a middle aged man named John Taylor ran around the field. He was eventually caught by three policemen, forcibly made to wear trousers, and removed from the stadium. Taylor was fined £10 by the North London Court the next day. In the sport of
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, it is not uncommon for a male streaker to run out to the field purely for shock and entertainment value or political purposes. The first known instance of streaking in cricket took place on 22 March 1974, the first day of the third test between Australia and New Zealand at Auckland. Half an hour before the end of the day's play, while New Zealand was batting, "a dark-haired young man" ran from near the sightscreen, through mid-wicket and disappeared between the stands near the square-leg boundary. The incident occurred quickly and police did not have time to react. Reports differ on whether the man was completely naked, with some accounts stating that he may have been wearing a flesh-coloured T-shirt. On the evening of the second day, while Australian batsman
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was on strike, an "athletic young man" was caught on television cameras running across the ground on the leg-side. The streaker ran to the men's restroom and was chased by police. When police entered the restroom, they found 20 people inside—all of whom were clothed—and authorities were unable to identify the streaker. One of the best-known instances of streaking occurred on 5 August 1975, when former Royal Navy cook Michael Angelow ran naked across Lord's during an Ashes Test. This was the first instance of streaking during a cricket match in England, and commonly mistakenly believed to be the first ever instance of streaking in cricket. Another example was in the First Test of the Australia versus the I.C.C. World XI, when a rather drunken man darted out toward the field naked, shocking the Australian and World XI players, halting play until he was spear tackled to the ground by field personnel. In one notable incident in 1977, Australian test cricketer Greg Chappell spanked an invading streaker named Bruce McCauley with his
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; McCauley then fell to the ground and was arrested by police. The English glamour model Linsey Dawn McKenzie performed a topless streak at a televised
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v.
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cricket match at
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in 1995. Wearing only a thong and a pair of
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, she ran onto the field with the words "Only Teasing" written across her breasts. In the 1970s, at the height of streaking's popularity, a male streaker who broke into the Augusta National golf course in Augusta, Georgia (albeit not while the Masters was in play), was shot with buckshot and slightly wounded. In 1999, a female streaker named Yvonne Robb was arrested for kissing
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on the 18th hole at Carnoustie. Streaking became popular at Australian rules football matches in the 1980s, particularly
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Grand Finals. The trend was a trend started by
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stripper Helen D'Amico at the
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between Carlton and Richmond, in which D'Amico streaked while wearing only a Carlton scarf. At the 1988 VFL Grand Final, a fully naked woman streaked during the final quarter and was promptly arrested. In another Melbourne Demons grand final in the 2021 Grand final, held in Perth a male streaker ran on to the ground wearing only his underwear. He was only on the ground for a few seconds before he was removed and arrested. In
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, streaker Mark Roberts disrupted the game by running onto the field. He was eventually leveled by
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linebacker Matt Chatham, and was subsequently apprehended. Despite the worldwide audience, this event was largely unnoticed due to that game's infamous halftime show in which
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's nude breast was revealed due to what was called a "wardrobe malfunction". Roberts would return in 2007 during the first NFL regular season game held in England between the
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and
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, streaking during the game at
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. In the 2006 Winter Olympics, streaker Mark Roberts interrupted the men's bronze medal
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match between the U.S. team and the UK team, wearing nothing but a strategically placed rubber chicken. For the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, officials warned visitors against streaking, amongst other forms of "bad behaviour". Michael O'Brien was the first known streaker at a major sporting event when on 20 April 1974, he ran out naked onto the ground of an England vs. France
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match at
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. The 25-year-old Australian was captured by a policeman, PC Bruce Perry, who covered his genitals with his police helmet. The photograph of O'Brien under arrest became one of the most reproduced photographs of a streaker. On 22 March 2009, a female streaker ran onto the pitch brandishing a green flag during the televised match between London Irish and Northampton Saints. It was in front of the season's largest crowd away from
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, 21,000 fans bearing witness. In a game against the Melbourne Storm at Olympic Park Stadium in 2007, a Brisbane Broncos fan streaked across the field waving his supporter jersey over his head. He was apprehended at the other side of the field to large applause. During an NRL finals match between the Wests Tigers and the New Zealand Warriors at the
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on 16 September 2011, a streaker ran onto the playing field forcing the game to come to a halt as security guards attempted to apprehend the man. During the final minutes of the third and deciding game of the
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, a streaker, Wati Holmwood, intruded naked upon the field, interrupting the play and possibly costing the Queensland team a try. He was tackled by security guards, escorted from the field and fined $5,500.


In popular culture

The high point of streaking's pop culture significance was in 1974, when thousands of streaks took place around the world. A wide range of novelty products were produced to cash in on the fad, from buttons and patches to a wristwatch featuring a streaking
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, in pink underwear that said "Too shy to streak." Perhaps the most widely seen streaker in history was 34-year-old Robert Opel, who streaked across the stage of The
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in Los Angeles flashing a
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on national US television at the
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in April 1974. Bemused host
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quipped, "Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?" Later, evidence arose suggesting that Opel's appearance was facilitated as a publicity stunt by the show's producer Jack Haley Jr. Robert Metzler, the show's business manager, believed that the incident had been planned in some way; during the dress rehearsal Niven had asked Metzler's wife to borrow a pen so he could write down the famous line, which was thus not the ad-lib it appeared to be.
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wrote and performed " The Streak", a novelty song about a man who is "always making the news / wearing just his tennis shoes". The song reached number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in May 1974. Parodied in a 6 May 1974 ''
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'' comic strip, the character
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, in his big man on campus persona Joe Cool; engages in the "latest campus fad" by removing his customary sunglasses and collar, then proceeds to go streaking by the fourth panel by appearing to be "naked" in doing so. In 1981, Japanese coin-op manufacturer Shoei produced an arcade game called ''Streaking'', a maze game in which a nude woman is being chased by police. It was distributed in the U.S. by Computer Games, Inc. as ''Streaker'', and by Computer Kinetics Corp. as ''Stripper''. In 2014, Russian project ChaveZZZ Reality released a single "Naked Runner" and a same-titled video-clip specifically dedicated to all streakers worldwide. In Bruce Weber's 2014 account of a bike ride across America ''Life is a Wheel'' he recounts a memory of his friend Billy streaking across the campus of
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at the age of 18. In 2019 the comic novella "Confessions of a Flash Artist" by Renald Iacovelli explored exhibitionism as an avant-garde art form.


Records

As of 2004, the record for the largest group streak was established at the
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with 1,543 simultaneous streakers on 7 March 1974. Retrieved from Internet Archive 6 February 2014.


See also

* Erika Roe


References

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