Strike

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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
• General strike, strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country
• Capital strike, refusal to invest in an economy
• Culture strike, refusal of artists or art institutions (arts organizations, festivals etc.) to respectively produce and show art
• Hunger strike, participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
• Postal strike (disambiguation), an industrial dispute by postal workers
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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

Science and technology

• 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 clock, clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong
• "Striking", cutting parts of a plant for propagation
• Strike (unit), an obsolete unit of volume, typically equivalent to two bushels

Sport

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

Entertainment

Other uses

• Strike (surname)
• 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 from the record, request to erase previous testimony or a court proceeding from the record

See also

• All pages with a title containing Strike
• Gold Strike (disambiguation)
• Strike, the Japanese name for the Pokémon Scyther
• Striker (disambiguation)
• <strike>, the HTML tag