# Strike > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Strike > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Strike.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike > Source revision: 1334420129 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Strike** may refer to: ## People - [Strike (surname)](/source/Strike_(surname)) - [Hobart Huson](/source/Hobart_Huson), author of several drug related books ## Physical confrontation or removal - [Strike (attack)](/source/Strike_(attack)), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm - [Airstrike](/source/Airstrike), military strike by air forces on either a suspected or a confirmed enemy ground position - [Bird strike](/source/Bird_strike), collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft - [Bridge strike](/source/Bridge_strike), collision of an over-height vehicle to a bridge. - [Military strike](/source/Military_strike), limited attack on a specified target - [Striking the colors](/source/Striking_the_colors), to haul down a flag to indicate surrender - [Strikethrough](/source/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](/source/Public_utility) or other such services - [YouTube copyright strike](/source/YouTube_copyright_strike), a copyright policing practice used by YouTube ## Refusal to work or perform - [Capital strike](/source/Capital_strike), refusal to invest in an economy - [Hunger strike](/source/Hunger_strike), participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others - [Rent strike](/source/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](/source/Sex_strike), refusal to engage in sexual activity to challenge a societal dispute - [Strike action](/source/Strike_action), a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work - [Student strike](/source/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)](/source/Strike_(unit)), an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels - [Electric strike](/source/Electric_strike), access control device used for doors - [Lightning strike](/source/Lightning_strike), electrical discharges caused by lightning - [Strike and dip](/source/Strike_and_dip), measure of the orientation of a geologic feature - "Striking", [cutting](/source/Cutting_(plant)) parts of a plant for propagation - [Striking clock](/source/Striking_clock), clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong ## Sport - [Strike (bowling)](/source/Strike_(bowling)), a term used in bowling - Strike, a term used in [association football](/source/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](/source/Striker_(cricket)) in cricket - [Strike zone](/source/Strike_zone), a term used in baseball - [Moraingy](/source/Moraingy) bare-fisted striking ## Arts, entertainment, and media ### Films - [*Strike* (1912 film)](/source/Strike_(1912_film)), a lost Australian film - [*Strike* (1925 film)](/source/Strike_(1925_film)), a silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein - [*Strike!* (1998 film)](/source/Strike!_(1998_film)), a Canadian-American comedy film written and directed by Sarah Kernochan - [*Strike* (2006 film)](/source/Strike_(2006_film)), a Polish-language film directed by Volker Schlöndorff - [*Strike* (2018 film)](/source/Strike_(2018_film)), a stop-motion animated film directed by Trevor Hardy ### Music - [Strike (band)](/source/Strike_(band)), British dance band formed in 1994 - [Strike (percussion group)](/source/Strike_(percussion_group)), New Zealand group formed in 1993 - "[Strike (Holster)](/source/Strike_(Holster))" a 2023 song by American rapper Lil Yachty - [*Strikes* (album)](/source/Strikes_(album)), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979 ### Television - [*Strike* (TV series)](/source/Strike_(TV_series)), a BBC series based on the *Cormoran Strike* detective book series - ["The Strike" (*Seinfeld*)](/source/The_Strike_(Seinfeld)), 166th episode of the NBC sitcom; it aired in December 1997 - "[The Strike](/source/The_Strike)", 1988 episode of *The Comic Strip Presents* - The Strike, a 1989 episode of the American children's comedy science fiction sitcom *[Small Wonder](/source/List_of_Small_Wonder_episodes#Season_4_(1988–89))* - "Strike!", a 2020 episode of the TV series *[Pocoyo](/source/Pocoyo)* ### Video games - [*Strike* (video game series)](/source/Strike_(video_game_series)), video games released during 1991–1997 by Electronic Arts - Strikes, cooperative multiplayer modes in the video game [*Destiny* (video game)](/source/Destiny_(video_game)), similar to a military strike ### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media - Strike, the Japanese name for the Pokémon [Scyther](/source/Scyther) - [S.T.R.I.K.E.](/source/S.T.R.I.K.E.), fictional counter-terrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe - [Strike Entertainment](/source/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](/source/Kamen_Rider_Dragon_Knight)* character ## Other uses - , the [HTML tag](/source/HTML_tag) - [Strike price](/source/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 ## See also - [The Strike (disambiguation)](/source/The_Strike_(disambiguation)) - [Gold Strike (disambiguation)](/source/Gold_Strike_(disambiguation)) - [Shrike (disambiguation)](/source/Shrike_(disambiguation)) - [Strike Force (disambiguation)](/source/Strike_Force_(disambiguation)) - [Striker (disambiguation)](/source/Striker_(disambiguation)) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Strike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike?action=history)). 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