Strike may refer to:

People

Physical confrontation or removal

* Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm * Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected or a confirmed enemy ground position *

Bird strike A bird strike—sometimes called birdstrike, bird ingestion (for an engine), bird hit, or bird aircraft strike hazard (BASH)—is a collision between an airborne animal (usually a bird or bat) and a moving vehicle, usually an aircraft. The term ...

, collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft *

Military strike In the military of the United States, strikes and raids are a group of military operations that, alongside quite a number of others, come under the formal umbrella of military operations other than war (MOOTW). What the definition of a military s ...

, limited attack on a specified target *

Striking the colors Striking the colors—meaning lowering the flag (the " colors") that signifies a ship's or garrison's allegiance—is a universally recognized indication of surrender, particularly for ships at sea. For a ship, surrender is dated from the time th ...

, to haul down a flag to indicate surrender * Strikethrough, 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 A public utility company (usually just utility) is an organization that maintains the infrastructure for a public service (often also providing a service using that infrastructure). Public utilities are subject to forms of public control and r ...

or other such services * YouTube copyright strike, a copyright policing practice used by YouTube

Refusal to work or perform

* Capital strike, 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, 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 A police strike is a potential tactic when law enforcement workers are embroiled in a labour dispute. Sometimes military personnel are called in to keep order or discipline the strikers. Police strikes have the potential to cause civil unrest. Li ...

, the police stop their work * Postal strike (disambiguation), an industrial dispute by postal workers *

Prison strike A prison strike is an inmate strike or work stoppage that occurs inside a prison, generally to protest poor conditions or low wages for penal labor. Prison strikes may also include hunger strikes. United States At the national level, declares "en ...

, strike taking place inside a prison, involving either a hunger strike or a prison work strike *

Rent strike A rent strike is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. In a rent strike, a group of tenants come together and agree to refuse to pay their rent ''en masse'' until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord. This ca ...

, 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 A sex strike (sex boycott), or more formally known as Lysistratic nonaction, is a method of nonviolent resistance in which one or more persons refrain from or refuse sex with partners until policy or social demands are met. It is a form of tem ...

, refusal to engage in sexual activity to challenge a societal dispute * Strike action, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work *

Student strike Campus protest or student protest is a form of student activism that takes the form of protest at university campuses. Such protests encompass a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academ ...

, 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) A strike is an obsolete unit of volume once used for dry measure in the United Kingdom, with various meanings. According to the SOED, "in some districts" equivalent to a half-bushel A bushel (abbreviation: bsh. or bu.) is an imperial and U ...

, an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels *

Electric strike An electric strike is an access control device used for door frames. It replaces the fixed strike faceplate often used with a latch (also known as a ''keeper''). Like a fixed strike plate, it normally presents a ramped or beveled surface to th ...

, access control device used for doors *

Lightning strike A lightning strike or lightning bolt is an electric discharge between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning. A less common type of strike, ground- ...

, electrical discharges caused by lightning * Strike and dip, measure of the orientation of a geologic feature *"Striking",

cutting Cutting is the separation or opening of a physical object, into two or more portions, through the application of an acutely directed force. Implements commonly used for wikt:cut, cutting are the knife and saw, or in medicine and science the scal ...

parts of a plant for propagation * Striking clock, clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong

Sport

Strike (bowling) In bowling, a ''strike'' means that all of the pins have been knocked down on the first ball roll of a frame. On a bowling scoresheet, a strike is marked by an "X". In American nine-pin bowling, a ringer is an equivalent term for knocking down ...

, a term used in bowling *Strike, a term used in

Association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

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

Strike zone In baseball, the strike zone is the volume of space through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike even if the batter does not swing. The strike zone is defined as the volume of space above home plate and between the batter's k ...

, 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), British dance band formed in 1994 * ''Strikes'' (album), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979 *" 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 ''The Strike'' (also known as ''Strike!'', although this is more properly the title of the fictitious Hollywood movie featured in the episode) is one of the short comedy films – written by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens, and directed by Ric ...

", 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 Destiny, sometimes referred to as fate (from Latin ''fatum'' "decree, prediction, destiny, fate"), is a predetermined course of events. It may be conceived as a predetermined future, whether in general or of an individual. Fate Although often ...

'', 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 Strike Entertainment was an American production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham, Thomas Bliss and Eric Newman. Strike's films are distributed through Universal Studios as well as various other majors. Its first film produced was ''The ...

, film production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham and Thomas Bliss, associated with Universal Studios *Kamen Rider Strike, a '' Kamen Rider Dragon Knight'' character

Other uses

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Strike price In finance, the strike price (or exercise price) of an option is a fixed price at which the owner of the option can buy (in the case of a call), or sell (in the case of a put), the underlying security or commodity. The strike price may be set ...

, 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