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 ...

Physical confrontation or removal

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

, attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm *

Airstrike An airstrike, air strike or air raid is an offensive operation carried out by aircraft. Air strikes are delivered from aircraft such as blimps, balloons, fighters, heavy bombers, ground attack aircraft, attack helicopters and drones. The offic ...

, 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 * Military strike, limited attack on a specified target * Striking the colors, to haul down a flag to indicate surrender *

Strikethrough Strikethrough is a typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through their center, resulting in . Contrary to censored or sanitized (redacted) texts, the words remain readable. This presentation signifies one of two meanings. In ...

, 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 or other such services *

YouTube copyright strike YouTube copyright strike is a copyright policing practice used by YouTube for the purpose of managing copyright infringement and complying with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) is the basis for th ...

, a copyright policing practice used by YouTube

Refusal to work or perform

Capital strike Capital strike is the practice of businesses withholding any form of new investment in an economy, in order to attain some form of favorable policy. Capital strikes may arise from the determination that return on investment may be low or nonexistent ...

, refusal to invest in an economy *Culture strike, refusal of artists or art institutions (arts organizations, festivals etc.) to respectively produce and show art *

General strike A general strike refers to a strike action in which participants cease all economic activity, such as working, to strengthen the bargaining position of a trade union or achieve a common social or political goal. They are organised by large co ...

, strike action by a critical mass of the total labor force in a city, region or country *

Hunger strike A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke a feeling of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most ...

, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others * Police strike, the police stop their work *

Postal strike (disambiguation) The term postal strike or mail strike may refer to: * U.S. postal strike of 1970 * 1971 United Kingdom postal workers strike * 1988 United Kingdom postal workers strike * 2007 Royal Mail industrial disputes * 2009 Royal Mail industrial disputes * 2 ...

, an industrial dispute by postal workers * Prison strike, strike taking place inside a prison, involving either a hunger strike or a prison work strike * 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, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to Labor (economics), work. A strike usually takes place in response to grievance (labour), employee grievance ...

, 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), an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels * Electric strike, access control device used for doors * Lightning strike, electrical discharges caused by lightning *

Strike and dip Strike and dip is a measurement convention used to describe the orientation, or attitude, of a planar geologic feature. A feature's strike is the azimuth of an imagined horizontal line across the plane, and its dip is the angle of inclination m ...

, measure of the orientation of a geologic feature *"Striking", cutting parts of a plant for propagation *

Striking clock A striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell or gong. 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 to twelve time ...

, clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong

Sport

* Strike (bowling), a term used in bowling *Strike, a term used in Association football (soccer) to mean an accurate, driven shot kicked using the laces of the boot *"On strike", a term used to refer to the

striker Striker or The Strikers may refer to: People *A participant in a strike action *A participant in a hunger strike *Blacksmith's striker, a type of blacksmith's assistant *Striker's Independent Society, the oldest mystic krewe in America People wi ...

in cricket * Strike zone, a term used in baseball

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), an animated film directed by Trevor Hardy

Music

Strike (band) Strike was a British electronic dance music band formed in 1994 consisting of Matt Cantor (later of Freestylers), Andy Gardner (later of Plump DJs) and the vocalist Victoria Newton. Career Strike formed towards the end of 1994. A chance vocal ...

, British dance band formed in 1994 * ''Strikes'' (album), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979 *"

Support the Miners ''Support the Miners'' is a single released by American drummer Keith LeBlanc under the moniker The Enemy Within, released in October 1984 on Rough Trade Records. Similar to the re-issuing of '' No Sell Out'' the same year, ''Support the Miners'' ...

", a 1984 song by American drummer Keith LeBlanc

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''

Video games

* ''Strike'' (video game series), video games released during 1991–1997 by Electronic Arts *Strikes, cooperative multiplayer modes in the video game '' Destiny'', 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 ''Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight'' is an American science fiction superhero television series that originally aired on The CW, from December 13, 2008 to December 26, 2009. It is an adaptation of the Japanese tokusatsu show '' Kamen Rider Ryuki'' an ...

'' 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