Strike

Strike may refer to:

People

 * Strike (surname)
 * Hobart Huson, author of several drug related books

Physical confrontation or removal

 * Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
 * 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
 * Bridge strike, collision of an over-height vehicle to a bridge.
 * Military strike, limited attack on a specified target
 * 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
 * Utility strike, during an excavation accidentally hitting or damaging buried pipes or wires belonging to a public utility or other such services
 * YouTube copyright strike, a copyright policing practice used by YouTube

Refusal to work or perform

 * Capital strike, refusal to invest in an economy
 * Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
 * 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, refusal to engage in sexual activity to challenge a societal dispute
 * Strike action, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
 * Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class

Science and technology

 * Strike (unit), an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels
 * Electric strike, access control device used for doors
 * Lightning strike, electrical discharges caused by lightning
 * Strike and dip, measure of the orientation of a geologic feature
 * "Striking", cutting parts of a plant for propagation
 * Striking clock, clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong

Sport

 * Strike (bowling), a term used in bowling
 * Strike, a term used in association football (soccer) to mean an accurate, driven shot kicked using the laces of the boot
 * "On strike", a term used to refer to the striker in cricket
 * Strike zone, a term used in baseball

Films

 * Strike (1912 film), a lost Australian film
 * Strike (1925 film), a silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein
 * Strike! (1998 film), a Canadian-American comedy film written and directed by Sarah Kernochan
 * Strike (2006 film), a Polish-language film directed by Volker Schlöndorff
 * Strike (2018 film), a stop-motion animated film directed by Trevor Hardy

Music

 * Strike (band), British dance band formed in 1994
 * Strike (percussion group), New Zealand group formed in 1993
 * "Strike (Holster)" a 2023 song by American rapper Lil Yachty
 * Strikes (album), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979

Television

 * Strike (TV series), a BBC series based on the Cormoran Strike detective book series
 * "The Strike" (Seinfeld), 166th episode of the NBC sitcom; it aired in December 1997
 * "The Strike", 1988 episode of The Comic Strip Presents
 * The Strike, an 1989 episode of the American children's comedy science fiction sitcom Small Wonder

Video games

 * Strike (video game series), video games released during 1991–1997 by Electronic Arts
 * Strikes, cooperative multiplayer modes in the video game Destiny, similar to a military strike

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

 * Strike, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Scyther
 * S.T.R.I.K.E., fictional counter-terrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe
 * Strike Entertainment, film production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham and Thomas Bliss, associated with Universal Studios
 * Kamen Rider Strike, a Kamen Rider Dragon Knight character

Other uses

 * , the HTML tag
 * 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