Sting

A sting is a structure of an animal or plant to inject poison into attackers or prey; or the wound inflicted by a sting. It may also refer to:

People

• Sting (musician) (born 1951), professional name of British rock musician Gordon Sumner
• Sting (wrestler) (born 1959), ring name of American professional wrestler Steve Borden
• Cheeseekau (c.1760 – 1 October 1792), war chief of the Kispoko division of the Shawnee Nation

Fictional uses

• The Sting, a 1973 film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford
• The Sting (1992 film), a 1992 Hong Kong film directed by Wong Man-wan
• "The Sting" (Futurama), an episode of the animated television series Futurama
• "The Sting", an episode of the British television series Lovejoy.
• Sting Oakley, a character in Gundam Seed Destiny
• Peter Stanchek aka Sting (Valiant Comics), a character in the Valiant Comics universe
• Sting (Middle-earth), a sword belonging to Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings
• "The Sting" (The Office), an episode from the seventh season of the series

Music

• "Sting ≠3", a song by Si Berg from A Bugged Out Mix

Sports teams

• Arizona Sting, an NLL lacrosse team
• Charlotte Sting, a WNBA basketball team (1997–2006)
• 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 (1998-2007)
• Trenton Sting, an Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League team

Other

• Sting operation, an undercover operation staged by law enforcement to catch a person committing a crime
• Sting (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse
• 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 (fixture), a fixture in a wind tunnel made to hold models.
• STING, a software suite for protein analysis
• STING (productivity), a five-point approach for task completion
• Sting Entertainment, a company that develops video games
• Sting Energy Drink, a Philippines/Pakistani energy drink bottled by Pepsi-Cola

Video games

• Sting: The Secret Operations

See also

• Stinger (disambiguation)