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 ...

* Hobart Huson, author of several drug related books

Physical confrontation or removal

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

, 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, collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft * Bridge strike, collision of an over-height vehicle to a bridge. * Military strike, 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 ...

, to haul down a flag to indicate surrender *

Strikethrough Strikethrough, or strikeout, is a typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through their center, resulting in , sometimes an X or a forward slash is typed over the top instead of using a horizontal line. Strike-through was u ...

, 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 ...

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 * Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others * 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 in British English, or simply strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to Working class, work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Str ...

, 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) A strike is an obsolete unit of volume once used for dry measure Dry or dryness most often refers to: * Lack of rainfall, which may refer to ** Arid regions **Drought * Dry or dry area, relating to legal prohibition of selling, serving, or imbi ...

, an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels * Electric strike, access control device used for doors *

Lightning strike A lightning strike or lightning bolt is a lightning event in which an electric discharge takes place between the atmosphere and the ground. Most originate in a cumulonimbus cloud and terminate on the ground, called cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning ...

, electrical discharges caused by lightning *

Strike and dip In geology, strike and dip is a measurement convention used to describe the plane orientation or Attitude (geometry), attitude of a Plane (geometry), planar Geology, geologic feature. A feature's strike is the azimuth of an imagined horizontal ...

, 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 sca ...

parts of a plant for propagation * Striking clock, 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 Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

(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, a term used in baseball * Moraingy bare-fisted striking

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), a stop-motion animated film directed by Trevor Hardy

Music

* Strike (band), British dance band formed in 1994 * Strike (percussion group), New Zealand group formed in 1993 *" Strike (Holster)" a 2023 song by American rapper Lil Yachty * ''Strikes'' (album), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979

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'' * The Strike, a 1989 episode of the American children's comedy science fiction sitcom '' Small Wonder'' *"Strike!", a 2020 episode of the TV series ''

Pocoyo ''Pocoyo'' ( in Spanish and stylised as ''POCOYO'') is an animated interactive preschool comedy television series created by David Cantolla, Luis Gallego, and Guillermo García Carsí, that premiered on 7 January 2005 on La 2. The series was ...

Video games

* ''Strike'' (video game series), video games released during 1991–1997 by Electronic Arts *Strikes, cooperative multiplayer modes in the video game ''Destiny'' (video game), 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'' 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