Sting (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Fictional uses 2 Sports teams 3 See also

Sting is the professional name of British rock musician Gordon Sumner, formerly of The Police.

Sting may also refer to:

• An injection of a poison via stinger by an animal or plant

• Bee sting, the sting from a bee

• "Bee Sting", a song by Ugly Casanova from their 2002 album Sharpen Your Teeth
• The homonym Beestings (colostrum), the first milk produced by the mammary glands
• The homophone Beasting, a type of Army discipline

• Sting (percussion), a brief burst of percussion used as a comedy punchline
• Sting (musical phrase), a short sequence of music used in films & TV as a form of punctuation
• Sting (video game developer), a company that makes video games
• STING, a software suite for protein analysis
• Sting operation, in law enforcement, an undercover operation staged to catch a person committing a crime
• Sting (computer game), a computer game from 2001 involving burglary
• Wall Ball, a game
• Sting (wrestler), the ring name of Steve Borden, a professional wrestler

[edit] Fictional uses

• The Sting, a 1973 film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford
• The Sting (Futurama), an episode of the animated television series Futurama
• Sting (Middle-earth), in The Hobbit, the name of Bilbo's sword
• Sting Oakley, a character in Gundam Seed Destiny
• Peter Stanchek aka Sting (Valiant Comics), a character in the Valiant Comics universe

[edit] Sports teams

• Arizona Sting, a NLL lacrosse
• Charlotte Sting, a WNBA basketball team
• Chicago Sting, an American soccer team (1975-1988)
• Las Vegas Sting, an Arena Football League team (1994-1995)
• SAR Sting, the universal name for SAR High School's sports teams.
• Sarnia Sting, an Ontario Hockey League junior team
• Southern Sting, a New Zealand netball team
• Trenton Sting, an Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League team

[edit] See also

• Stinger (disambiguation)