Skin (disambiguation)
Appearance
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Skin is a soft outer covering of an animal, in particular a vertebrate.
Skin or skins may also refer to the following:
Outer covering
- Peel (fruit) or skin
- 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
- Mobile phone skin, a protective and/or decorative covering for a mobile phone
Arts and media
Television
- Skins (UK TV series), a British teen drama series, beginning in 2007
- Skins (U.S. TV series), a short-lived American adaptation
- Skin (TV series), a 2003 American drama series
- "Skin" (Supernatural), an episode of Supernatural
- Skins, a species of aliens in Roswell
Films
- The Skin, a 1981 Italian film by Liliana Cavani
- Skin (1995 film), a short film directed by Vincent O'Connell
- Skins (film), a 2002 film
- Skin (2008 film), a biographical film about Sandra Laing
- The Skin I'm In (documentary), a 2012 autobiographical documentary by Broderick Fox
Literature
- Skin (Dekker novel), a 2007 novel by Ted Dekker
- Skin (Hayder novel), 2009
- "Skin" (short story), a 1952 short story by Roald Dahl
- Skin (graphic novel), a graphic novel by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy
- Skin (Marvel Comics), a Marvel comic book character
- Skin, an X-Files novel by Ben Mezrich
- Skins, a 1995 novel by Adrian C. Louis
Theatre
- Skin, a 1995 play by Naomi Iizuka
Music
Performers
- Skin (Japanese band) or S.K.I.N, a Japanese rock supergroup
- Skin (British band), a British hard rock band
- Skin (musician) or Deborah Anne Dyer, lead singer of Skunk Anansie
- The World of Skin, also known as Skin, a US band
Songs
- "Skin (Sarabeth)", a 2005 song by the Rascal Flatts
- "Skin", a song by Madonna from Ray of Light
- "Skin", a song by R. Kelly
- "Skinz", a song by Pete Rock & CL Smooth
- "Skin", a song by Adema from Adema
- "Skin", a song by Alexz Johnson from the show Instant Star
- "Skin" (Breaking Benjamin song), 2002
- "Skin" (Rihanna song), 2010
- "Skin" (Spock's Beard song), 1999
- "Skin", a song by White Zombie from Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
- "Skin", a song by Machinae Supremacy from Overworld
- "Skin", a song by Rae Morris from Unguarded
- "Skins", a song by Pink Floyd from The Endless River
Albums
- Skin (Peter Hammill album), 1986
- Skin (16 Volt album), 1994
- Skin (Skin album), 1994
- Skin (Endorphin album), 1999
- Skin (Erik Fridlander album), 2000
- Skin (Westworld album), 2000
- Skin (Melissa Etheridge album), 2001
- Skin (Katie Noonan album), 2007
- Skin, an album by Psychefunkapus
- Skin (Flume album), 2016
Sports and sports culture
- Skins game, a type of golf and curling event
- Washington Redskins or the Skins, an NFL team
- Skins, the team that plays a sport shirtless in shirts versus skins
- Skins (sportswear) a company that manufactures and sells compression sportswear
Other uses
- Polaris Skin, an Italian ultralight trike design
- Skin (computing), a customized graphical presentation for computer software and websites
- Skins, virtual goods that represent cosmetic options for video game weapons, vehicle, and character models typically earned in-game or part of a game's downloadable content
- Skin gambling, gambling arising around the trading, buying, and selling of video game skins, primarily for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Skin (anthropology), a form of social categorisation system in Australian Indigenous societies
- Mr. Skin, a website that specializes in locating, rating, and posting instances of female nudity in television and film
- Cigarette rolling papers or skins
- Low five or giving skin
- Slang for skinheads
- Skin (petroleum engineering), a zone of increased or decreased flow resistance around an oil well
- Slang for money (U.S.)