Stick facts for kids

A stick is a long, slender piece of wood, usually a branch from a tree without the leaves.

Stick may mean:

• 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, a computer game controller
• Prayer stick
• Polo stick, hockey stick, lacrosse stick, etc. in sports
• Memory stick, a device for storing digital information
• Stick shift, automobile transmission

Stick may also mean:

• 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, now known as Monster Park

In music:

• Clapstick, a musical instrument that traditionally accompanies the didgeridoo
• Chapman Stick, a musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s

Related pages

• Pogo Stick, pole with a spring up its botttom
• Poohsticks, a game
• Styx (band) and Styx (album), an American rock group and their debut album
• Stick insect or "walking stick", an insect
• Stick figure, also known as a stick man

See also

In Spanish: Stick para niños