Skin (disambiguation)

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Skin is a soft outer covering of an animal, in particular a vertebrate.

Skin or skins may also refer to the following:

Outer covering

• Peel (fruit) or skin
• Skin (aircraft), the outer covering of an aircraft or its wing
• Skinning, removing the outer layer of something's flesh
• Milk skin, a thin layer over the top of heated milk
• Hide (skin), an animal skin processed by humans
• Mobile phone skin, a protective and/or decorative covering for a mobile phone

Arts and media

Television

• Skins (UK TV series), a British teen drama series, beginning in 2007
  • Skins (North American TV series), a short-lived American adaptation
• Skin (TV series), a 2003 American drama series
• "Skin" (Supernatural), an episode of Supernatural
• Skins, a species of aliens in Roswell

Films

• The Skin, a 1981 Italian film by Liliana Cavani
• Skin (1995 film), a short film directed by Vincent O'Connell
• Skins (film), a 2002 film
• Skin (2008 film), a biographical film about Sandra Laing
• The Skin I'm In (documentary), a 2012 autobiographical documentary by Broderick Fox

Literature

• Skin (Dekker novel), a 2007 novel by Ted Dekker
• Skin (Hayder novel), 2009
• "Skin" (short story), a 1952 short story by Roald Dahl
• Skin (graphic novel), a graphic novel by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy
• Skin (Marvel Comics), a Marvel comic book character
• Skin, an X-Files novel by Ben Mezrich
• Skins, a 1995 novel by Adrian C. Louis

Theatre

• Skin, a 1995 play by Naomi Iizuka

Music

Performers

• Skin (Japanese band) or S.K.I.N, a Japanese rock supergroup
• Skin (British band), a British hard rock band
• Skin (musician) or Deborah Anne Dyer, lead singer of Skunk Anansie
• The World of Skin, also known as Skin, a US band

Songs

• "Skin (Sarabeth)", a 2005 song by the Rascal Flatts
• "Skin", a song by Madonna from Ray of Light
• "Skin", a song by R. Kelly
• "Skinz", a song by Pete Rock & CL Smooth
• "Skin", a song by Adema from Adema
• "Skin", a song by Alexz Johnson from the show Instant Star
• "Skin" (Breaking Benjamin song), 2002
• "Skin" (Rihanna song), 2010
• "Skin" (Spock's Beard song), 1999
• "Skin", a song by White Zombie from Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
• "Skin", a song by Machinae Supremacy from Overworld
• "Skin", a song by Rae Morris from Unguarded
• "Skins", a song by Pink Floyd from The Endless River

Albums

• Skin (Peter Hammill album), 1986
• Skin (16 Volt album), 1994
• Skin (Skin album), 1994
• Skin (Endorphin album), 1999
• Skin (Erik Fridlander album), 2000
• Skin (Westworld album), 2000
• Skin (Melissa Etheridge album), 2001
• Skin (Katie Noonan album), 2007
• Skin, an album by Psychefunkapus

Sports and sports culture

• Skins game, a type of golf and curling event
• Washington Redskins or the Skins, an NFL team
• Skins, the team that plays a sport shirtless in shirts versus skins
• Skins (sportswear) a company that manufactures and sells compression sportswear

Other uses

• Polaris Skin, an Italian ultralight trike design
• Skin (computing), a customized graphical presentation for computer software and websites
• Skin (anthropology), a form of social categorisation system in Australian Indigenous societies
• Mr. Skin, a website that specializes in locating, rating, and posting instances of female nudity in television and film
• Cigarette rolling papers or skins
• Low five or giving skin
• Skin (petroleum engineering), a zone of increased or decreased flow resistance around an oil well
• Slang for money (U.S.)

See also

• Skin beetle, a type of insect
• All pages beginning with "skin"
• All pages with titles containing "skin"
• Skinning (disambiguation)