Strike
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Strike may refer to a refusal to work or perform, including:
- Strike action or work strike, a work stoppage by a corporation or public institution
- General strike, a strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country
- Church strike, strike decided by the Christian church
- Prison strike, a strike taking place inside a prison
- Student strike a mass refusal of students to go to class, in protest of school issues, or in sympathy with a strike action or general strike
- Culture strike, refusal to produce or show art
- Hunger strike, voluntary refusal to eat as an act of protest
- Rent strike, the withholding of rent to achieve certain goals
- Sex strike, refraining from sex to achieve goals
Strike may refer to a physical confrontation or removal, including:
- Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
- Bird strike, a collision between a bird and an aircraft
- Military strike, a limited military attack on a specified target
- Air strike, a military strike by air forces
- Strike through, a typographical effect
In economics:
- Strike (finance) is the price at which the holder buys or sells if they choose to exercise an option
In law:
- Strike from the record, to forbid testimony or evidence from being considered
In science and technology:
- Strike (geology), a measure of the orientation of a geologic feature
- Strike and dip, which indicates the compass orientation of a horizontal line on a planar surface
- Lightning strike, electrical discharge between clouds and the ground
- Striking clock, a clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong
- Cutting (plant), cutting parts of a plant for propagation
- Electric strike
In the arts and entertainment:
- Strike Entertainment is a production company produced and distributed through Universal Pictures launched in 2003
- Strike (film) a 1925 Soviet silent film by Sergei Eisenstein
- Strike (2006 film) a 2006 film by Volker Schlöndorff about a woman who becomes a founder of Poland's Solidarity movement
- The Strike series of videogames
- Strike (band), a UK dance music group
- Strike (hip-hop) Hip Hop group from Georgia
- "The Strike" (Seinfeld episode)
- Strikebreaker (short story), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
- GAT-X105 Strike Gundam, in the anime series Gundam Seed, the primary mobile suit for the first half of the series
- S.T.R.I.K.E. a fictional intelligence agency in Marvel Comics
- Or, in the theatre, to strike a set means to dismantle it after the final performance of a play, and either to discard the materials or store them for a future production.
- Strikes (album), a 1979 album by Southern rock band Blackfoot
In sports and games:
- Strike (baseball), a mark against a batter
- Strike (bowling), when a player knocks down all the pins with the first ball of a frame
- In cricket, a batsman is "on strike" when facing the bowler
- An accurate, driven shot using the laces of the shoe in football (soccer)
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See also
- Striker (disambiguation)
- Gold Strike (disambiguation)
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