Outer covering

• Skin, another name for peel (fruit)
  Peel (fruit)
  Peel, also known as rind or skin, is the outer protective layer of a fruit or vegetable which could be peeled off. The rind is usually the botanical exocarp, but the term exocarp does also include the hard cases of nuts, which are not named peels since they are not peeled off by hand or peeler, but...
  
  
• Skin (aircraft)
  Skin (aircraft)
  The wings and fuselage of aircraft are covered by what is referred to as the skin. Aircraft have a protective and functional covering that is also called the skin of the flying machines. Soft single skin kite examples the use of the term for kite wings....
  
  , the outer covering of an aircraft or its wing
• Skinning
  Skinning
  Skinning, a gerund from the verb to skin, commonly refers to the act of skin removal.The process is usually done with animals, mainly as preparation of the meat beneath and/or use for the fur...
  
  , removing the outer layer of something's flesh
• Milk skin
  Milk skin
  Milk skin refers to a sticky film of protein that forms on top of milk and milk-containing liquids . It is caused by the denaturation of proteins such as casein....
  
  , a thin layer over the top of heated milk

Television

• Skins (TV series)
  Skins (TV series)
  Skins is a BAFTA award-winning British teen drama that follows a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of college. The controversial plot line explores issues such as dysfunctional families, mental illness , adolescent sexuality, substance abuse and death...
  
  , a British teen drama television series, beginning in 2007
• Skins (2011 TV series), an American adaptation of the British teen drama series of the same name
• Skin (TV series)
  Skin (TV series)
  Skin is a television serial drama which aired at 9:00 p.m. Monday on Fox in 2003. It followed the tale of two teenagers who came from feuding families on opposite sides of the moral and legal spectrum. Adam is the son of the Los Angeles District Attorney, and Jewel is the daughter of a pornographer...
  
  , an American drama television series, which was aired and cancelled in 2003
• "Skin" (Supernatural), an episode of American paranormal television series, Supernatural
• Skins, a species of aliens in the TV series Roswell
  Roswell (TV series)
  Roswell is an American science fiction television series developed, produced, and co-written by Jason Katims. The series debuted on October 6, 1999 on The WB and moved to UPN for the third season. The last episode aired May 14, 2002...
  
  

Films

• Skin (2008 film), a biographical film about Sandra Laing
• Skin (1995 film)
• Skins (2002 film)

Literature

• Skin (novel)
  Skin (novel)
  Skin is a contemporary Christian fiction science fiction/horror novel released in April 2007 by Ted Dekker. Dekker's novel, Skin was published by Thomas Nelson with the purpose to connect the Circle Trilogy, the Project Showdown books, and an upcoming series of books.* Tagline: Don't trust your...
  
  , a 2007 novel by Ted Dekker
• Skins, a 1995 novel by Adrian C. Louis
  Adrian C. Louis
  Adrian C. Louis is a Lovelock Paiute author from Nevada now living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. He has taught at Oglala Lakota College. His novel Skins discusses reservation life and issues such as poverty, alcoholism, and social problems and was the basis for the 2002 film,...
  
  
• "Skin" (short story)
  Skin (short story)
  Skin is a macabre short story written by author Roald Dahl.It is featured in 'A Roald Dahl Selection', a compilation of several short stories by Dahl that has been edited by Roy Blatchford.-Plot summary:...
  
  , a story written by Roald Dahl
• Skin (graphic novel), a comic book by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy
• Skin (comics)
  Skin (comics)
  Skin is a fictional mutant in the Marvel Universe of comics. The character first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #317. -Fictional character biography:...
  
  , a Marvel comic book character
• Skin, an X-Files novel by Ben Mezrich

Performers

• Skin (Japanese band)
  Skin (Japanese band)
  Skin is a music project founded by several Japanese rock musicians in 2007. They are Yoshiki, Gackt, Sugizo and Miyavi, all being important to the visual kei movement or closely related to it, but everyone being from a different generation.Its debut performance was on June 29, 2007, in Long Beach,...
  
  , stylized as S.K.I.N, a Japanese rock supergroup
• Skin (UK band)
  Skin (UK band)
  Skin are a UK hard rock band active during the 1990s who reformed in 2009, only to disband again in 2010.-History:Skin were formed in the early 1990s by ex-Jagged Edge members Myke Gray and Andy Robbins along with former Kooga vocalist Neville MacDonald and drummer Dicki Fliszar, formerly from...
  
  , a British hard rock band
• Skin (musician), stage name of Deborah Anne Dyer, lead singer of the band Skunk Anansie
• Skin, a U.S. band also known as World of Skin
  World of Skin
  The World of Skin was a project springing out of the American group Swans, and was a collaboration between the core Swans members Michael Gira and Jarboe. The project was initially called Skin, with the first two albums being released under that name, the last one being released under the name the...
  
  

Songs

• "Skin (Sarabeth)
  Skin (Sarabeth)
  "Skin " is a song performed by the country music group Rascal Flatts. The song was originally a hidden track on the first shipment of their album, Feels Like Today, and charted in mid-2005 as an album cut while the single "Fast Cars and Freedom" was climbing the charts...
  
  ", a song by the Rascal Flatts
• "Skin", a fast dance track from Madonna's album Ray of Light
  Ray of Light
  Ray of Light is the seventh studio album by American singer-songwriter Madonna, released on March 3, 1998 by Maverick Records and distributed by Warner Bros. Records. After giving birth to her daughter Lourdes, Madonna collaborated with Patrick Leonard and William Orbit in developing the album...
  
  
• "Skin" (R. Kelly song), a second single from his album 12 Play: Fourth Quarter
• "Skinz", a song by Pete Rock & CL Smooth
• "Skin", a song by Alexz Johnson from the show, Instant Star
  Instant Star
  Instant Star was a Canadian television program which aired from September 2004 to June 2008. The series starred Alexz Johnson as adolescent music competition winner Jude Harrison. The show chronicles Harrison's experience in the recording industry whilst focusing upon character development.Linda...
  
  
• "Skin" (Breaking Benjamin song)
  Skin (Breaking Benjamin song)
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  , a Breaking Benjamin single from their debut album Saturate
• "Skin" (Rihanna song)
  Skin (Rihanna song)
  "Skin" is a song by Barbadian recording artist Rihanna from her fifth studio album, Loud . The song was written by Kenneth Coby and Ursula Yancy, whilst production of the song was completed by Soundz...
  
  , from Loud

Albums

• Skin (16 Volt album)
  Skin (16 Volt album)
  Skin was 16 Volt's second album, which was released in 1994 under the Re-Constriction label.-Track listing:# Skin - 3:19# Perfectly Fake - 5:10# Uplift - 3:51# Slow Wreck - 4:47# Skin Graft - 2:41# Stitched - 4:45# Built To Last - 2:59...
  
  
• Skin (Melissa Etheridge album)
• Skin (Skin album)
  Skin (Skin album)
  The debut album from UK hard rock band Skin.-Track listing:# Money # Shine Your Light # House of Love # Colourblind # Which Are the Tears # Look But Don't Touch...
  
  
• Skin (Katie Noonan album)
  Skin (Katie Noonan album)
  -Track listing:# "Logic"# "Return"# "Time to Begin"# "Love's My Song for You"# "Little Boy Man"# "Sunshine"# "One Step"# "Home"# "Send Out a Little Love"# "Who Are You?"# "Bluebird"# "A Little Smile"...
  
  
• Skin (Westworld album)
  Skin (Westworld album)
  -Track listing:All songs written by Tony Harnell/Mark Reale except where noted.# "Skin" – 4:40# "Ice Queen" – 5:07# "Uneasy" – 5:18# "Limbo" – 6:55# "Black Shadow Symphony" – 5:22# "Tomorrow's Yesterday" – 3:47# "Out There" – 4:54...
  
  
• Skin, an album by Psychefunkapus
  Psychefunkapus
  Psychefunkapus was a thrash funk band from the San Francisco Bay Area that released two albums for Atlantic Records in the early nineties. They got their name from their love of psychedelic music and a reference to a P-Funk song warning the coming of the "Funkapus".-History:Psychefunkapus formed in...
  
  

Sports and sports culture

• Skins, the team that plays a sport shirtless in Shirts Versus Skins
  Shirts Versus Skins
  Shirts versus Skins is a common form of denoting team affiliations in an informal sports game; typically when played on a public court or park. The practice involves the members of one team wearing shirts while the other does not...
  
  
• Skins Game
  Skins Game
  A skins game is a type of scoring for various sports, most notably golf but also for curling and bowling.-LG Skins Game:There was an annual skins game for male professional golfers which takes place in November or December each year after the end of the official PGA Tour season. It is recognized by...
  
  , a type of golf and curling event
• Washington Redskins
  Washington Redskins
  The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...
  
  , an NFL team nicknamed the Skins"

Computing

• Skin (computing)
  Skin (computing)
  In computing, a skin is a custom graphical appearance achieved by the use of a graphical user interface that can be applied to specific software and websites to suit the purpose, topic, or tastes of different users....
  
  , a customized graphical presentation for computer software and websites
• In computer graphics, skinning is a term commonly associated with texture mapping
  Texture mapping
  Texture mapping is a method for adding detail, surface texture , or color to a computer-generated graphic or 3D model. Its application to 3D graphics was pioneered by Dr Edwin Catmull in his Ph.D. thesis of 1974.-Texture mapping:...
  
  
• In computer animation, skinning is attaching a mesh to a set of bones in skeletal animation
  Skeletal animation
  Skeletal animation is a technique in computer animation in which a character is represented in two parts: a surface representation used to draw the character and a hierarchical set of interconnected bones used to animate the mesh...
  
  

Anthropology

• Skin (anthropology), a system that is a form of social categorisation in Australian Indigenous societies

Slang

• Skin, a short form of the word skinhead
  Skinhead
  A skinhead is a member of a subculture that originated among working class youths in the United Kingdom in the 1960s, and then spread to other parts of the world. Named for their close-cropped or shaven heads, the first skinheads were greatly influenced by West Indian rude boys and British mods,...
  
  
• Skin, a short form of redskin (slang)
• Skin, a slang term for abrade (see Abrasion (medical))
• Skins, a slang term for rolling papers
• Skin(s), a term used to refer to human
  Human
  Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...
  
  s or mortals
• 'Skin up', a term meaning to "roll a joint (cannabis)
  Joint (cannabis)
  Joint is a slang term for a cigarette rolled using cannabis. Rolling papers are the most common rolling medium among industrialized countries, however brown paper, cigarettes with the tobacco removed, and newspaper are commonly used in developing countries. Modern papers are now made from a wide...
  
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• "Gimme some skin," a slang term for "Give me a high five
  High five
  The high five is a celebratory hand gesture that occurs when two people simultaneously raise one hand, about head high, and push, slide or slap the flat of their palm and hand against the palm and flat hand of their partner...
  
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• Skins, a 1970s slang term for drum
  Drum
  The drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
  
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