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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 (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
===Fictional uses===
*''[[The Sting]]'', a 1973 film starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford
*[[The Sting (Futurama)|"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)]]
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