Sting (disambiguation)
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Sting is the professional name of British rock musician Gordon Sumner, known for being a member of The Police as well as a solo artist.
Sting may also refer to:
- An injection of a poison via stinger by an animal or plant
- Bee sting, the sting from a bee
- 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 (wrestler), the ring name of Steve Borden, a professional wrestler
- STING, a software suite for protein analysis
- STING (productivity), a five-point approach for task completion
- 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
[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 team
- Charlotte Sting, a WNBA basketball team
- Chicago Sting, an American soccer team (1975-1988)
- Las Vegas Sting, an Arena Football League team (1994-1995)
- 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