Stroke (disambiguation)

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A stroke or brain stroke is a cerebral accident. It may also refer to:

• heart stroke or myocardial infarction

Entertainment & media

• Stroke (journal), a cardiology journal
• The Stroke (wrestling maneuver)
• "The Stroke", a 1981 song by Billy Squier
• The Strokes, a rock band

Writing and graphics

• Bar (diacritic)
• Stroke (CJK character), part of a Chinese character
• Stroke, a trace of ink in handwriting
• Stroke, a line that makes up part or all of a letter in typeface anatomy
• Slash (punctuation), the typographical character
• As a spoken word, where in writing the / symbol would have been used.
• One of the two basic methods of drawing a path in vector graphics.

Sport

• Stroke (rowing), various meanings in the sport of rowing
• Stroke play, a scoring system used in golf
• Swimming stroke, a swimming style
• Stroke, a scuba diver who is not following the rules of Doing It Right

Other

• Stroke (engine), a single action of some engines
• Stroke, the recognition, attention or responsiveness that one person gives another in transactional analysis

See also

• Stroke 9, a rock band
• Stroke City, a nickname for Derry, Northern Ireland
• Sunstroke, a condition caused by overexposure to the sun
• Stroke (Fast One), a deception