Sting

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Contents 1 People and Corporations 2 Miscellaneous 3 Fictional uses 4 Sports teams 5 See also

Sting may refer to:

[edit] People and Corporations

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

[edit] Miscellaneous

• 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

[edit] 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

[edit] 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

[edit] See also

• Stinger (disambiguation)