Shark (disambiguation)

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A shark is a cartilaginous, usually carnivorous fish.

Shark, Sharks or The Shark may also refer to:

Animals

• Some bony fishes from the family Cyprinidae; see freshwater shark
• Shark (moth), the noctuid moth species Cucullia umbratica

Geography

• Shark, Arkansas, a community in the United States
• Shark Island (disambiguation)

Computing

• Shark (or Sharkbase), an MS-DOS database (dbf) application
• Shark, a Mac OS X software development optimization tool
• IBM Enterprise Storage Server (ESS), or Shark
• Soft Hard Real-Time Kernel (S.Ha.R.K. or SHaRK), a component-based real-time kernel architecture
• Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding or ShapeWriter, a data input method

Arts and entertainment

Film

• The Shark (1920 film), a lost silent Fox film
• Shark! (film), a 1969 American action film directed by Samuel Fuller and starring Burt Reynolds
• Shark (2000 film), a 2000 horror film
• Shark: Mind of a Demon, a 2006 documentary by Fabien Cousteau that aired on CBS

Television

• Shark (2013 TV series), a South Korean KBS television series
• Shark (TV series), a CBS legal drama starring James Woods that aired from 2006-2008
• Shark (BBC TV series), 2015 documentary series
• Shark, a character in the Adult Swim series 12 oz. Mouse

Music

• Sharks (band formed 2007), a British punk rock band
• The Sharks, an American new wave band
• Sharks (album), an album by rock band UFO
• "Sharks" a song by Test Icicles from the album For Screening Purposes Only

In print

• Shark (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
• Shark (novel), by British writer Will Self
• The Sharks (novel), by Norwegian author Jens Bjørneboe

Sculpture

• The Headington Shark (or just The Shark), a 1986 sculpture in Headington, Oxford, England

In the military

• Blackburn Shark, a British carrier-borne torpedo bomber
• HMS Shark, various British Royal Navy ships
• USS Shark, various American ships
• The Sharks (Royal Navy), the Royal Navy's Helicopter Display Team (1975-1992)
• HNoMS Svenner (G03), a Royal Norwegian Navy World War II destroyer launched as HMS Shark (G03)
• PNS Hangor (S131) (1970-2006), a Pakistan Navy submarine nicknamed "The Shark"
• SHARK, a World War II codename for a German naval cipher using the Enigma machine

Vehicles and vessels

• Fly-Fan Shark, a Slovak light aircraft design
• Shark, a speedboat used for Circle Line Downtown
• Shark 24 class yacht
• Shark, a version of the Rotopress garbage truck

People

• The Shark (nickname), a list of people
• The Shark, alias of Michele Sindona, a convicted felon
• "The Shark", a ring name of professional wrestler John Tenta
• Card shark, a term for a hustler or cheat, but sometimes also refers to an honest, skilled player or card trick performer
• Loan shark, one who offers unsecured loans at high interest rates
• Pool shark (disambiguation), a pool/billiards hustler

Sports teams

• Sharks (Super Rugby), a South African rugby union team
• Sharks F.C., a Nigerian football team
• Cronulla Sharks, an Australian rugby league team
• Bucks County Sharks, an American rugby league team
• Darlington Mowden Park Sharks, an English women's rugby union team
• East Fremantle Sharks, an Australian Rules football team
• Hull F.C., an English rugby league team once known as Hull Sharks
• Jacksonville Sharks, the reigning champion of the Arena Football League
• Los Angeles Sharks, a World Hockey Association team (1972-1974)
• Nova Southeastern Sharks, the NCAA II athletics teams of Nova Southeastern University
• Orlando Sharks, a U.S. Indoor Soccer team
• Sale Sharks, an English rugby union team
• San Jose Sharks, a U.S. National Hockey League team
• Shanghai Sharks, a Chinese basketball team
• Sheffield Sharks, an English basketball team
• Worcester Sharks, a U.S. American Hockey League team

Other uses

• Shark (helmet manufacturer)
• Shark Energy Drink, manufactured in Thailand
• SHARK, a block cipher identified as one of the predecessors of Rijndael
• Showing Animals Respect and Kindness (SHARK), an animal rights organization

See also

• Shark! Shark! an Intellivision video game released in 1982
• Akula (Shark), a Typhoon class submarine
• SHARC (disambiguation)
• Sharking, a sexual fetish that involves debagging