Strike may refer to:
Refusal to work or perform
- Strike action, also known as a walkout, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
- Culture strike, refusal of artists or art institutions (arts organizations, festivals etc.) to respectively produce and show art
- General strike, strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country
- Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
- Prison strike, strike taking place inside a prison, involving either a hunger strike or a prison work strike
- 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, when one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner(s) to achieve certain goals
- Student strike, occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class
Physical confrontation or removal
- Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
- 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
- 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
- Military strike, limited attack on a specified target
Arts and entertainment
- Strike (band), British dance band formed in 1994
- Strike (film), 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein
- The Strike, 1988 episode of The Comic Strip Presents
- Strike (2006 film), Polish language film produced by a mainly German group, released in 2006 and directed by Volker Schlöndorff
- S.T.R.I.K.E., fictional, counterterrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe
- Strikes (film) starring Anthony Anderson
- "The Strike" (Seinfeld), 166th episode of the NBC sitcom
- Strike Entertainment, film production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham and Thomas Bliss, associated with Universal Studios
- Strike Gundam, mobile suit from the Cosmic Era timeline of the Gundam anime metaseries
- Strike series, video games released between 1991 — 1997 by Electronic Arts
- "Strikebreaker" (short story), science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, first published in the January 1957 issue of The Original Science Fiction Stories
- Strikes (album), third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979
- "The Lightning Strike", a 2008 song by Snow Patrol
- "Strike the set" (theatrical), process in set construction of dismantling, storing or discarding the materials used
Economics
- 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
- "Strike" (eBay), arbitrary penalty marker used by sellers against buyers for alleged non-payment of items
Law
Science and technology
Sports and games
- Strike (bowling), term used to indicate that all of the pins have been knocked down with the first ball of a frame
- Strike zone, conceptual prism over home plate which defines the boundaries through which a pitch must pass in order to count as a strike when the batter does not swing
- "On strike", term used in cricket when a batsman is facing the bowler
- "Strike", accurate, driven shot using the laces of the shoe in Association football (soccer)
See also
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