Skin (disambiguation)

Skin is a soft outer covering of an animal, in particular a vertebrate.

Skin or skins may also refer to:

Outer covering

• Peel (fruit), or outer covering of any vegetable
• Skin (aeronautics), the outer covering of an aircraft or its wing
• Skinning, removing the outer layer of something's flesh
• Milk skin, a thin layer over the top of heated milk
• Hide (skin), an animal skin processed by humans
• Mobile phone skin, a protective and/or decorative covering for a mobile phone

Arts and media

Television

• Skins (UK TV series), a British teen drama series, beginning in 2007
  • Skins (U.S. TV series), a short-lived American adaptation
• Skin (TV series), a 2003 American drama series
• "Skin" (Supernatural), an episode of Supernatural
• Skins, a species of aliens in Roswell

Films

• The Skin, a 1981 Italian film by Liliana Cavani
• Skin (1995 film), a short film directed by Vincent O'Connell
• Skins (2002 film), an American film
• Skin (2008 film), a biographical film about Sandra Laing
• Skins (2017 film), a Spanish film
• Skin (2018 feature film), an American film
• Skin (2018 short film), an American Oscar awarded short film

Literature

• The Skin (novel) by Curzio Malaparte
• Skin (Dekker novel), a 2007 novel by Ted Dekker
• Skin (Hayder novel), 2009
• "Skin" (short story), a 1952 short story by Roald Dahl
• Skin (graphic novel), a graphic novel by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy
• Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature, a collection of essays by Dorothy Allison
• Skin (Marvel Comics), a Marvel comic book character
• Skin, an X-Files novel by Ben Mezrich
• Skins, a 1995 novel by Adrian C. Louis

Theatre

• Skin, a 1995 play by Naomi Iizuka

Music

Performers

• Skin (Japanese band) or S.K.I.N, a Japanese rock supergroup
• Skin (British band), a British hard rock band
• Skin (musician) (born 1967), lead singer of Skunk Anansie
• The World of Skin, also known as Skin, a US band

Albums

• Skin (Peter Hammill album), 1986
• Skin (16 Volt album), 1994
• Skin (Skin album), 1994
• Skin (Endorphin album), 1999
• Skin (Erik Friedlander album), 2000
• Skin (Westworld album), 2000
• Skin (Melissa Etheridge album), 2001
• Skin (Katie Noonan album), 2007
• Skin (The Rainmakers album), 1996
• Skins (Buffalo Tom album), 2011
• Skin (Flume album), 2016
• Skins (album), by XXXTentacion, 2018

Songs

• "Skin" (Breaking Benjamin song), 2002
• "Skin" (Rag'n'Bone Man song), 2017
• "Skin" (Rihanna song), 2010
• "Skin" (Spock's Beard song), 1999
• "Skin (Sarabeth)", by Rascal Flatts, 2005
• "Skinz", song by Pete Rock & CL Smooth
• "Skin", by Adema from the self-titled album
• "Skin", by Alexz Johnson from the show Instant Star
• "Skin", by Bullet for My Valentine from Venom
• "Skin", by Flowers from Icehouse
• "Skin", by Grimes from Visions
• "Skin", by Machinae Supremacy from Overworld
• "Skin", by Madonna from Ray of Light
• "Skin", by Oingo Boingo from the album Dark at the End of the Tunnel
• "Skins", by Pink Floyd from The Endless River
• "Skin", by R. Kelly
• "Skin", by Rae Morris from Unguarded
• "Skin", by White Zombie from Let Sleeping Corpses Lie

Sports and sports culture

• Skins game, a type of golf and curling event
• Washington Redskins, or the Skins, an American football team
• Skins, the team that plays a sport shirtless in shirts versus skins
• Skins (sportswear), a company that manufactures and sells compression sportswear

Other uses

• Polaris Skin, an Italian ultralight trike design
• Skin (computing), a customized graphical presentation for computer software and websites
• Skins, virtual goods that represent cosmetic options for video game weapons, vehicle, and character models typically earned in-game or part of a game's downloadable content
  • Skin gambling, gambling arising around the trading, buying, and selling of video game skins, primarily for Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
• Skin (anthropology), a form of social categorisation system in Australian Indigenous societies
• Mr. Skin, a website that specializes in locating, rating, and posting instances of female nudity in television and film
• Cigarette rolling papers or skins
• Low five or giving skin
• Slang for skinheads
• Slang for making an investment in a venture ("skin in the game")
• Slang for the sex industry ("skin trade")
• Slang for nudity ("showing skin")

See also

• Skin beetle, a type of insect
• All pages with titles beginning with skin
• All pages with titles containing skin
• Skinning (disambiguation)
• Skinny (disambiguation)