# 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

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### 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, a 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 (video game), 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

* <strike>, 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