Sting (disambiguation)

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Sting is the professional name of British rock musician Gordon Sumner, first known as a member of The Police and subsequently as a solo artist.

Sting may also refer to:

• An injection of a poison via stinger by an animal or plant
• Bee sting, the sting from a bee
• 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

People and Corporations

• Sting (wrestler), the ring name of Steve Borden, a professional wrestler.
• Sting (video game developer), a company which makes video games

Fictional uses

• The Sting, a 1973 film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford
• "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

See also

• Stinger (disambiguation)

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