A sting is an injection of a poison via stinger by an animal or plant, such as a bee sting. It may also refer to:

People

• Sting (wrestler), the ring name of Steve Borden, a professional wrestler
• Sting (musician), the professional name of British rock musician Gordon Sumner, first known as a member of The Police and subsequently as a solo artist

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
• 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
• Sting or Stung, names of swords in various games, often influenced by Tolkien's Sting, e.g. NetHack, World of Warcraft, Zork, and John Hodgman's book The Areas of My Expertise

Sports teams

• Arizona Sting, an 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

Other

• Sting operation, an undercover operation staged by law enforcement to catch a person committing a crime
• 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

See also

• Stinger (disambiguation)