Stick

Stick may refer to:

• Stick, a long, slender piece of wood, usually a branch from a tree, generally without the leaves. Usually after being refined (e.g. smoothened, polished, varnished or painted), a stick may be used as:
  • Chopsticks, an eating utensil
  • Rod, cane, or hickory stick, disciplinary implements
  • Pointing stick, an indicator
  • Swagger stick, a formal attribute
  • Club (weapon) or staff (stick), weapons
  • Tally stick, a marking medium
  • Walking stick, a mobility aid
  • Fire stick, a stick for making fire

• Stick, objects of similar shape to a slender piece of wood:
  • A stick of dynamite
  • Joy stick, a computer game controller
  • Prayer stick
  • Polo stick, hockey stick, lacrosse stick, etc. in sports
  • Memory stick, a device for storing digital information
  • Stick shift, automobile transmission

• Stick (unit), an ancient unit of length (2 inch ≈ 5 cm), cfr. in yard (stick)
• Silver Stick and Gold Stick, certain functions named after a ceremonial attribute
• A group of 12 paratroopers
• A line of infantry in a landing craft (usually 2 per craft)
• Clapstick, a musical instrument that traditionally accompanies the didgeridoo
• Chapman Stick, a musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s
• Stick (comics), a character in Marvel Comics, predominantly Daredevil
• A type of Victorian architecture, also sometimes referred to as Stick-Eastlake
• Stick, a movie featuring Burt Reynolds and music by Anne Murray
• Australian euphemism for approximately one gram of marijuana wrapped in aluminium foil and shaped like one's pinky finger
• A scroll (rolled around a stick), e.g., the Stick of Joseph from Ezekiel 37:16
• A stick insect or "walking stick"
• Nickname for former baseball infielder and manager Gene Michael
• A stick or sticky, a member of the Official IRA
• A stick figure, also known as a stick man
• In the pharmaceutical industry, it could mean a substance prepared as a solid for roll-on application.

Sticks may refer to:

• Sticks, a name for Led Zeppelin's album Led Zeppelin IV
• Sticks, slang for (especially woody) rural terrain
• American rock group Styx, or their eponymous debut album
• Stephen "Sticks" Kernahan, a former Australian rules football champion with the Carlton Football Club

• Stick (verb), to prick or to attach to something, like glue does

See also

• Poohsticks, a game