Strike

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Contents 1 Refusal to work or perform 2 Physical confrontation or removal 3 Arts and entertainment 4 Economics 5 Law 6 Science and technology 7 Sports and games 8 See also

Strike may refer to:

[edit] Refusal to work or perform

• Strike action, also known as a walkout, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
• 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 labor force in a city, region or country
• Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
• 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, when one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner(s) to achieve certain goals
• Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class

[edit] Physical confrontation or removal

• Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
• Striking the colors, to haul down a flag to indicate surrender
• Strikethrough, typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through the center of them
• 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
• Military strike, limited attack on a specified target

[edit] Arts and entertainment

• Strike (band), British dance band formed in 1994
• Strike (film), 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein
• Strike (2006 film), Polish language film produced by a mainly German group, released in 2006 and directed by Volker Schlöndorff
• S.T.R.I.K.E., fictional, counterterrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe
• Strikes (film) starring Anthony Anderson
• "The Strike" (Seinfeld), 166th episode of the NBC sitcom
• Strike Entertainment, film production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham and Thomas Bliss, associated with Universal Studios
• Strike Gundam, mobile suit from the Cosmic Era timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries
• Strike series, video games released between 1991 — 1997 by Electronic Arts
• "Strikebreaker" (short story), science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories
• Strikes (album), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979
• "Strike the set" (theatrical), process in set construction of dismantling, storing or discarding the materials used

[edit] Economics

• 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
• "Strike" (eBay), arbitrary penalty marker used by sellers against buyers for alleged non-payment of items

[edit] Law

• Strike from the record, request to erase previous testimony or a court proceeding from the record

[edit] Science and technology

• Strike and dip, measure of the orientation of a geologic feature
• Striking clock, clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong
• Electric strike, access control device used for doors
• Lightning strike, electrical discharges caused by lightning, typically during thunderstorms
• "Striking", cutting parts of a plant for propagation

[edit] Sports and games

• Strike (bowling), term used to indicate that all of the pins have been knocked down with the first ball of a frame
• Strike zone, conceptual prism over home plate which defines the boundaries through which a pitch must pass in order to count as a strike when the batter does not swing
• "On strike", term used in cricket when a batsman is facing the bowler
• "Strike", accurate, driven shot using the laces of the shoe in Association football (soccer)

[edit] See also

• All pages with titles containing Strike
• Striker (disambiguation)
• Gold Strike (disambiguation)

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