Stick

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Stick or the stick may refer to:

Thin elongated objects

  • Twig or branch
  • The weapon used in stick-fighting
  • Walking stick, a device to facilitate balancing while walking
  • Shepherd's crook
  • Swagger stick
  • Digging stick
  • Swizzle stick, used to stir drinks

Sports

  • Bandy stick, used in bandy
  • Cue stick, used in pool, snooker and carom billiards
  • Hockey stick, used in hockey
    • Field hockey stick
    • Ice hockey stick
  • Lacrosse stick, used in lacrosse
  • The rods, called "the sticks" used to measure distance by the chain crew in American football

Music

  • Drum stick, used to strike drums
  • Part of a bow used to play a string instrument
  • Chapman Stick, an electric musical instrument in the guitar family
  • Percussion stick, a struck percussion instrument
  • Led Zeppelin IV, a 1971 album sometimes referred to as Sticks
  • The Sticks (album), a 2012 album by Canadian band Mother Mother
  • Sticks, a 2019 EP by Bish included within the album Carrots and Sticks
  • "The Sticks", a track from the 1966 Cannonball Adderley Quintet album Cannonball in Japan

Transportation

Geography

  • Boondocks, also called "the sticks", a remote area
  • Candlestick Park, a defunct stadium in San Francisco, nicknamed "The Stick"

Fiction

  • Stick (comics), the teacher of Daredevil and Elektra in Marvel Comics
  • Stick (novel), a 1983 novel by Elmore Leonard
  • "Sticks" (short story), a 1974 short story by Karl Edward Wagner

Film and TV

  • Sticks (film), a 2001 film starring Justina Machado and Lillo Brancato
  • Stick (film), a 1985 Burt Reynolds film
  • The Stick, a 1987 film directed by Darrell Roodt
  • Stick (comics), a Marvel Comics character
  • Stick Stickly, a Nickelodeon character
  • Stick Bernard, protagonist of the anime series Genesis Climber MOSPEADA
  • Sticks the Badger, a character from the 2014 TV series Sonic Boom

People

  • Stick Elliott (1934–1980), American stock car driver
  • Stephen Kernahan (born 1963), Australian footballer nicknamed "Sticks"
  • Gene Michael (1938–2017), American baseball player nicknamed "Stick"
  • Norm Provan (1932–2021), Australian former rugby league footballer and coach nicknamed "Sticks"
  • Easton Stick (born 1995), American football quarterback
  • Jan Stick, 21st century Canadian politician
  • Josh Stick (born 1980), New Zealand former footballer
  • Leonard Stick (1892–1979), Canadian politician
  • Mzwandile Stick (born 1984), South African rugby union player and coach
  • LeJerald Betters (born 1988), American sprinter nicknamed "Sticks"

Food

Other uses

  • Stick (punishment), a rod used for corporal punishment
  • Stick (unit), several units of measurement
  • Stick, a British slang term for abuse, insult, or denigration
  • A group of paratroopers in a single aircraft
  • A group of soldiers corresponding to a section

See also

  • All pages with titles containing stick
  • Stick style, a late-19th-century American architectural style
  • Sticking (disambiguation)
  • Stik, British graffiti artist
  • Styx (disambiguation)
  • Sticky (disambiguation)
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