Shooting Star

Shooting star refers to a meteor.

Shooting star may also refer to:

Film, television, and theater

• Shooting Star (2015 film), a 2015 Bulgarian short film
• Shooting Star (2020 film), a 2020 Canadian short film
• Shooting Stars (British TV series), a British comedy television show
• Shooting Stars (Singaporean TV series), a 2005 Singaporean TV drama
• Shooting Star (animated series), a 2020 television series by 41 Entertainment
• Star Trek: Phaser Strike (called Shooting Star in Germany, Italy and UK), a 1979 video game for the Microvision
• "Shooting Stars" (CSI), a 2005 sixth-season episode of CSI
• Shooting Star, a play by Steven Dietz
• Shooting Stars, a play by Molly Newman
• Shooting Stars (1927 film), a 1927 British drama film
• Shooting Stars (1950 film), a 1950 film
• Shooting Stars (1952 film), a 1952 West German drama film
• Shooting Stars (1983 film), a 1983 television film, starring Billy Dee Williams
• Shooting Stars (1997 film) ((Le ciel est à nous), a 1997 French comedy produced by Richard Sadler
• "Shooting Star" (Glee), a 2013 episode of the television show Glee
• Shooting Stars Award, annually presented to 10 young European actors at the Berlin International Film Festival
• The Shooting Star, the name of Racer X's car in Mach GoGoGo media
• Shooting Stars (South Korean TV series), a 2022 television series

Literature

• Shooting Stars, a 2016 novel by Brian Falkner
• Shooting Star, a 1958 novel by Robert Bloch
• Shooting Star (Temple novel), by Australian Peter Temple
• The Shooting Star, a 1942 Tintin adventure
• Shooting Star (comics), a character from Marvel Comics

Music

• Shooting Star (band), a rock band from Kansas City, Missouri

Albums

• Shooting Star (Elkie Brooks album), 1978
• Shooting Star (Shooting Star album), 1980
• Shooting Stars (album), a 1979 album by Dollar
• Shooting Star (EP), a 2012 EP by Owl City, and the title song

Songs

• "Baby Can I Hold You/Shooting Star", by Boyzone
• "Shooting Star" (Air Traffic song), 2007
• "Shooting Star" (Bad Company song), 1975
• "Shooting Star" (David Rush song), 2009
• "Shooting Star" (Deepest Blue song), 2004
• "Shooting Star" (Disney song), from Disney's Hercules
• "Shooting Star" (Bob Dylan song), 1989
• "Shooting Star" (Elton John song), 1978
• "Shooting Star" (Modern Talking song), 2006
• "Shooting Star" (Poison song), 2002
• "Shooting Star" (Owl City song), 2012
• "Shooting Star" (Tara McDonald song), 2013
• "Shooting Stars" (Bag Raiders song), 2010
• "Shooting Stars" (Dragon song), 1977
• "Shooting Star" by The Mamas & the Papas, from the 1971 album People Like Us
• "Shooting Star", by Lou Reed, from the 1978 album Street Hassle
• "Shooting Star", by Cross Gene
• "Shooting Star", a 1997 dance single by Bang!, covered by Flip & Fill
• "Shooting Star" by Harry Chapin, from the 1974 album Verities & Balderdash
• "Shooting Star" by Dollar, from the album Shooting Stars
• "Shooting Star" by the Australian band Expatriate, from the 2007 album In the Midst of This
• "Shooting Star" by Riyu Kosaka, from the 2003 album BeForU
• "Shooting Star" by Cliff Richard and The Shadows, from the 1966 film Thunderbirds Are Go
• "Shooting Star" by Órla Fallon, from the 2009 album Distant Shore
• "Shooting Star" by Elliott Smith, from the 2004 album From a Basement on the Hill
• "Shooting Stars" by Amy Diamond, from the 2005 album This Is Me Now
• "Shooting Star" by everset, Kamen Rider Meteor's theme on the series Kamen Rider Fourze
• "The Shooting Star" by Gojira, from the 2016 album Magma
• "Shooting Star" by VIXX from the 2016 album Kratos
• "Shooting Star" by Gene Clark from the 1973 album Roadmaster
• "Shooting Star" by MUNA

Science and mathematics

• Hypervelocity star, a type of star that moves at unusually high velocities across the galaxy
• Primula sect. Dodecatheon, a group of herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Primula
• Primula pauciflora, also known as pretty shooting star, few-flowered shooting star, dark throat shooting star and prairie shooting star

Sport

• Shooting Stars F.C., a Nigerian football club
• NBA All-Star Weekend Shooting Stars Competition, a basketball competition
• A professional wrestling aerial technique

Transportation

• P-80 Shooting Star, a United States Army Air Forces jet fighter
• T-33 Shooting Star, an American-built jet trainer
• Shooting Star (clipper), an extreme clipper ship built in 1851
• Another 1851 extreme clipper, USS Ino, which served in the Civil War. It was renamed Shooting Star in 1867.
• A BR 'Britannia' class steam locomotive
• A GWR Star Class, steam locomotive
• A logo displayed on many Hokutosei locomotives, including:
  • JNR Class DD51, a diesel-hydraulic locomotive type operated in Japan since 1962
  • JR Freight Class EF510, a multi-voltage AC/DC electric locomotive type operated in Japan since 2002

Other uses

• Shooting Star (spacecraft), an expendable cargo module for the Dream Chaser spacecraft
• Shooting Star (drone), quadcopter drone by Intel
• Tecumseh (1768–1813), whose Shawnee name has been translated as Shooting Star
• Shooting Star Casino, in Minnesota
• Bay 101 Shooting Star, a World Poker Tour tournament
• Shooting star (candlestick pattern), in finance
• Shooting Star Tommy Gun, a carnival amusement game
• Shooting Star, Ace's aircraft from the arcade games TwinBee Yahho! and Sexy Parodius

See also

• Falling star (disambiguation)
• Ryūsei (disambiguation)