Skin (disambiguation)

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Skin is a soft outer covering of an animal, in particular a vertebrate.

Skin or skins may also refer to:

Outer covering

• Skin, another name for peel (fruit)
• Skin (aircraft), the outer covering of an aircraft or its wing
• Skinning, removing the outer layer of something's flesh
• Milk skin, a thin layer over the top of heated milk
• Hide (skin), an animal skin processed by humans

Biology

• Skin beetle, a type of insect

Arts and media

Television

• Skins (TV series), a British teen drama television series, beginning in 2007
  • Skins (North American TV series), a short-lived American adaptation of the British show of the same name
• Skin (TV series), an American drama television series, which was aired and cancelled in 2003
• "Skin" (Supernatural), an episode of American paranormal television series, Supernatural
• Skins, a species of aliens in the TV series Roswell

Films

• The Skin (1981 film), an Italian film directed by Liliana Cavani, adaptation of Curzio Malaparte's 1949 novel of the same name
• Skin (1995 film)
• Skins (2002 film)
• Skin (2008 film), a biographical film about Sandra Laing

Literature

• Skin (novel), a 2007 novel by Ted Dekker
• Skins, a 1995 novel by Adrian C. Louis
• "Skin" (short story), a story written by Roald Dahl
• Skin (graphic novel), a comic book by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy
• Skin (comics), a Marvel comic book character
• Skin, an X-Files novel by Ben Mezrich

Theatre

• Skin, a 1995 play by Naomi Iizuka based on Woyzeck by Georg Buchner

Music

Performers

• Skin (Japanese band), stylized as S.K.I.N, a Japanese rock supergroup
• Skin (UK band), a British hard rock band
• Skin (musician), stage name of Deborah Anne Dyer, lead singer of the band Skunk Anansie
• Skin, a U.S. band also known as World of Skin

Songs

• "Skin (Sarabeth)", a song by the Rascal Flatts
• "Skin", a fast dance track from Madonna's album Ray of Light
• "Skin" (R. Kelly song), a second single from his album 12 Play: Fourth Quarter
• "Skinz", a song by Pete Rock & CL Smooth
• "Skin", a song by Alexz Johnson from the show, Instant Star
• "Skin" (Breaking Benjamin song), a Breaking Benjamin single from their debut album Saturate
• "Skin" (Rihanna song), from Loud

Albums

• Skin (16 Volt album)
• Skin (Melissa Etheridge album)
• Skin (Skin album)
• Skin (Katie Noonan album)
• Skin (Westworld album)
• Skin, an album by Psychefunkapus

Sports and sports culture

• Skins, the team that plays a sport shirtless in shirts versus skins
• Skins Game, a type of golf and curling event
• Washington Redskins, an NFL team nicknamed the "'Skins"

Computing

• Skin (computing), a customized graphical presentation for computer software and websites
• In computer graphics, skinning is a term commonly associated with texture mapping
• In computer animation, skinning is attaching a mesh to a set of bones in skeletal animation

Anthropology

• Skin (anthropology), a system that is a form of social categorisation in Australian Indigenous societies

Slang

• Skin, a short form of the word skinhead
• Skin, a short form of redskin (slang)
• Skin, a slang term for abrade (see Abrasion (medical))
• Skins, a slang term for rolling papers
• Skin(s), a term used to refer to humans or mortals
• 'Skin up', a term meaning to "roll a joint (cannabis)"
• "Gimme some skin," a slang term that sometimes means Give me a high five"
• Skins, a 1970s slang term for drums

See also

• All pages beginning with "skin"
• All pages with titles containing "skin"
• Skinning (disambiguation)