Strike

Refusal to work or perform

• Strike action
  Strike action
  Strike action, often simply called a strike, is a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work. A strike usually takes place in response to employee grievances. Strikes became important during the industrial revolution, when mass labour became important in factories and mines...
  
  , also known as a walkout, a work stoppage caused by the mass refusal of employees to perform work
• Culture strike
  Culture strike
  A culture strike involves the refusal of artists or art institutions to respectively produce and show art....
  
  , refusal of artists or art institutions (arts organizations, festivals etc.) to respectively produce and show art
• General strike
  General strike
  A general strike is a strike action by a critical mass of the labour force in a city, region or country. While a general strike can be for political goals, economic goals, or both, it tends to gain its momentum from the ideological or class sympathies of the participants...
  
  , strike action by a critical mass of the labor force in a city, region or country
• Hunger strike
  Hunger strike
  A hunger strike is a method of non-violent resistance or pressure in which participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others, usually with the objective to achieve a specific goal, such as a policy change. Most hunger strikers will take liquids but not...
  
  , participants fast as an act of political protest, or to provoke feelings of guilt in others
• Prison strike
  Prison strike
  A prison strike is a strike taking place inside a prison, involving either a hunger strike or a prison work strike. The California Code of Regulations states that "[p]articipation in a strike or work stoppage", "[r]efusal to perform work or participate in a program as ordered or assigned", and...
  
  , strike taking place inside a prison, involving either a hunger strike or a prison work strike
• Rent strike
  Rent strike
  A rent strike is a method of protest commonly employed against large landlords. In a rent strike, a group of tenants come together and agree to refuse to pay their rent en masse until a specific list of demands is met by the landlord...
  
  , 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
  Sex strike
  A sex strike is a strike, a method of non-violent resistance in which one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner to achieve certain goals...
  
  , when one or multiple persons refrain from sex with their partner(s) to achieve certain goals
• Student strike
  Student strike
  A student strike occurs when students enrolled at a teaching institution such as a school, college or university refuse to go to class. This form of strike action is often used as a negotiating tactic in order to put pressure on the governing body of the university, particularly in countries where...
  
  , 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)
  Strike (attack)
  A strike is an attack with an inanimate object, such as a weapon, or with a part of the human body intended to cause an effect upon an opponent or to simply cause harm to an opponent. There are many different varieties of strikes...
  
  , attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
• Striking the colors
  Striking the colors
  Striking the colors is the universally recognized indication of surrender, particularly for ships at sea. Surrender is dated from the time the ensign is struck.- In international law :# "Colors. A national flag . The colors . ....
  
  , to haul down a flag to indicate surrender
• Strikethrough
  Strikethrough
  Strikethrough is a typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through the center of them. Here is an example....
  
  , typographical presentation of words with a horizontal line through the center of them
• Airstrike
  Airstrike
  An air strike is a military strike by air forces or other military aviation assets against either a suspected or a confirmed enemy ground position. Air strikes are commonly delivered from aircraft such as bombers, ground attack aircraft, strike fighters, and Attack helicopters. Weapons used in an...
  
  , military strike by air forces on either a suspected or a confirmed enemy ground position
• Bird strike
  Bird strike
  A bird strike is a collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft. It is a common threat to flight safety, and has caused a number of accidents with human casualties...
  
  , collision between an airborne animal and a man-made vehicle, especially aircraft
• Military strike
  Military strike
  A military strike is a limited attack on a specified target. Strikes are used, amongst other things, to render facilities inoperable , to assassinate enemy leaders, and to limit supply to enemy troops. A strike can often be the prelude to a war or siege, whose initial strike is for a strategic or...
  
  , limited attack on a specified target

Arts and entertainment

• Strike (band)
  Strike (band)
  Strike are a British dance band formed in 1994 consisting of Matt Cantor, Andy Gardner and the vocalist Victoria Newton.-Career:Strike formed towards the end of 1994. A chance vocal session for Victoria Newton at the studios of Fresh Records in Ladbroke Grove, landed her the role as the lead...
  
  , British dance band formed in 1994
• Strike (film)
  Strike (film)
  Strike is a silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisenstein's first full-length feature film, and he would go on to make The Battleship Potemkin later that year. It was acted by the Proletcult Theatre, and composed of six parts...
  
  , 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein
• The Strike
  The Strike
  The Strike was one of the long-running series of Comic Strip Presents... short comedy films, written by Peter Richardson and Pete Richens and directed by Richardson...
  
  , 1988 episode of The Comic Strip Presents
• Strike (2006 film)
  Strike (2006 film)
  Strike is a Polish language film produced by a mainly German group, released in 2006 and directed by Volker Schlöndorff. The film is broadly a docudrama...
  
  , Polish language film produced by a mainly German group, released in 2006 and directed by Volker Schlöndorff
• S.T.R.I.K.E.
  S.T.R.I.K.E.
  S.T.R.I.K.E. is a fictional, comic-book counterterrorism and intelligence agency in the Marvel Comics universe. The organization, that often deals with superhuman threats, was introduced in Captain Britain Weekly #17, as the United Kingdom's version of the United Nation's S.H.I.E.L.D.The acronym...
  
  , 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
  Strike Entertainment
  Strike Entertainment is a production company founded in 2002 by Marc Abraham and Thomas Bliss. Strike's films are distributed through Universal Studios...
  
  , 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
  Strike series
  Strike is the common name of a series of video games created by Mike Posehn, John Patrick Manley and Tony Barnes released between 1991 and 1997 by Electronic Arts for a number of video game systems. The games are Multi-directional shooters shown from an isometric perspective...
  
  , 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)
  Strikes (album)
  Strikes is the third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979. The group's breakthrough album, it featured two Top 40 hits in Highway Song was the first released single. It quickly zoomed to #26 on the pop chart and two decades later history finds it settled in alongeside with...
  
  , third album by Southern rock band Blackfoot, released in 1979
• "The Lightning Strike
  The Lightning Strike
  "The Lightning Strike" is a song from alternative rock band Snow Patrol's fifth album A Hundred Million Suns, and appears as the last track on the album. The lyrics to the song were written by lead singer Gary Lightbody and the music was composed by Snow Patrol...
  
  ", a 2008 song by Snow Patrol
• "Strike the set" (theatrical), process in set construction
  Set construction
  Set construction is a process by which a set designer works in collaboration with the director of the production to create the set for a theatrical, film or television production...
  
   of dismantling, storing or discarding the materials used

Economics

• Strike price
  Strike price
  In options, the strike price, or exercise price, is a key variable in a derivatives contract between two parties. Where the contract requires delivery of the underlying instrument, the trade will be at the strike price, regardless of the spot price of the underlying instrument at that...
  
  , 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
  EBay
  eBay Inc. is an American Internet company that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. A majority of the sales take place through a set-time auction format, but subsequent methods include...
  
  ), arbitrary penalty marker used by sellers against buyers for alleged non-payment of items

Law

• Strike from the record
  Strike from the record
  To strike from the record is for a judge to forbid a decision maker to consider a particular piece of testimony or other evidence when deciding the case even though he or she has already learned what that evidence or testimony concerned. The commonly heard request is "move to strike", with the...
  
  , request to erase previous testimony or a court proceeding from the record

Science and technology

• Strike and dip
  Strike and dip
  Strike and dip refer to the orientation or attitude of a geologic feature. The strike of a bed, fault, or other planar feature is a line representing the intersection of that feature with a horizontal plane. On a geologic map this is represented with a short straight line segment oriented parallel...
  
  , measure of the orientation of a geologic feature
• Striking clock
  Striking clock
  A striking clock is a clock that sounds the hours audibly on a bell or gong.The striking feature of clocks was originally more important than their clock faces; the earliest clocks struck the hours, but had no dials to enable the time to be read...
  
  , clock that sounds the hours on a bell or gong
• Electric strike
  Electric strike
  An electric strike is an access control device used for doors. It replaces the fixed strike faceplate often used with a latchbar . Like a fixed strike, it normally presents a ramped surface to the locking latch allowing the door to close and latch just like a fixed strike would...
  
  , access control device used for doors
• Lightning strike
  Lightning strike
  Lightning strikes are electrical discharges caused by lightning, typically during thunderstorms.Humans can be hit by lightning directly when outdoors. Contrary to popular notion, there is no 'safe' location outdoors. People have been struck in sheds and makeshift shelters...
  
  , electrical discharges caused by lightning, typically during thunderstorms
• "Striking", cutting parts of a plant for propagation

Sports and games

• Strike (bowling)
  Strike (bowling)
  A strike is a term used in bowling to indicate that all of the pins have been knocked down with the first ball of a frame. On scoresheets, a strike is symbolized by an X.-Scoring:...
  
  , term used to indicate that all of the pins have been knocked down with the first ball of a frame
• Strike zone
  Strike zone
  In baseball, the strike zone is a conceptual three dimensional right angle pentagonal 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.-Definition:...
  
  , 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
  Cricket
  Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century. By the end of the 18th century, cricket had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England. The expansion of the British Empire led to cricket being...
  
   when a batsman is facing the bowler
• "Strike", accurate, driven shot using the laces of the shoe in Association football (soccer)