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A stick generally refers to a long, slender piece of wood, usually a branch from a tree without the leaves that may be refined.
Stick may refer to:
- Floorballstick, a small plastic or carbon stick, with a blade, used in floorball
- Chopsticks, an eating utensil
- Rod, cane, or hickory stick, disciplinary implements
- Pointing stick, an indicator
- Swagger stick, a formal attribute
- Club (weapon) or staff (stick), weapons
- Tally sticks, a marking medium
- Walking stick, a mobility aid
- Fire stick, a stick for making fire
In objects of similar shape:
- A stick of dynamite
- Joystick, the control column in an aircraft cockpit, or a computer game controller
- Prayer stick
- Polo stick, hockey stick, lacrosse stick, etc. in sports
- Memory stick, a device for storing digital information.
- Modem stick (i.e. Huawei E172).
- Stick shift, automobile transmission
The sticks may refer to:
- The boondocks, a remote area, or a city or town that is considered unsophisticated
Stick may also refer to:
- Adhesion
- Stick (unit), an ancient unit of length (2 inch ≈ 5 cm), cfr. in yard
- Silver Stick and Gold Stick, certain functions named after a ceremonial attribute
- Stick (comics), a character in Marvel Comics, predominantly Daredevil
- Stick-Eastlake, a type of Victorian architecture
- Stick (film), a movie featuring Burt Reynolds and music by Anne Murray
In nicknames:
- Sticks for the Led Zeppelin album Led Zeppelin IV
- Sticks for Stephen Kernahan, former Australian rules football champion with the Carlton Football Club
- Stick for Gene Michael, former baseball infielder and manager
- Candlestick Park, the home stadium of the San Francisco 49ers and former home of the San Francisco Giants
- Sticks is Jaina Solo's Nickname while she is in Rogue Squadron from Starwars
In music:
- Clapstick, a musical instrument that traditionally accompanies the didgeridoo
- Chapman Stick, a musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s
In the military:
- A cluster of bombs
- A group of (generally) 12 paratroopers
See also
- Poohsticks, a game
- Styx (disambiguation)
- Stick insect or "walking stick", an insect
- Stick figure, also known as a stick man
- Stick Cricket, an online game
- The Sticks, Hiberno-English slang for the countryside
- Sticky
- Centre stick, a cockpit arrangement with the control column located centrally
- Side-stick, a cockpit arrangement with the control column located at the side
- The Sticks, an Australian band
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