A whip is a stick, cord, or strap, usually with a stiff handle, used for striking or as an animal training aid.

Whip or whips or WHIP or The Whip may also refer to:

People

  • Whip (musician), American folk singer-songwriter
  • Whip Jones (1909–2001), American ski industry pioneer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

  • Whip (character), several DC Comics characters
  • Whip (King of Fighters), a video game character

Films

  • The Whip (1917 film), an American silent drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur
  • The Whip (1928 film), an American silent film drama directed by Charles Brabin
  • The Whip (1939 film) (Spanish: El látigo), a Mexican film directed by José Bohr
  • The Whip (2024 film), a British heist film directed by Christopher Presswell

Music

  • Whip (percussion), a percussion instrument
  • The Whip (band), a British electro-rock band
  • "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)", a song by the American rapper Silentó
  • The Whip (album), a compilation album

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Chicago Whip, a defunct early 20th century African-American newspaper often referred to as The Whip
  • WHIP (AM), a radio station (1350 AM), Mooresville, North Carolina, US
  • The Whip (play), a 1909 melodrama
  • The Whip (ride), an amusement ride
  • The Whip, a dance move popularised by Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)

Devices

  • Whipping knot (or whipping), a binding around the end of a rope to prevent it from fraying
  • Whip antenna, for radio waves
  • WHIPS, Whiplash Injury Protection System in automobiles
  • Whipstaff or whip, used to steer an old sailing vessel
  • Whip, slang for a car

Sports

  • Walks plus hits per inning pitched (WHIP), a baseball statistic
  • Washington Whips, a defunct US soccer/football team

Other uses

  • Whip (politics), a political party discipline official
  • Whip (tree), a slender unbranched shoot or plant
  • Whip, to punish using a whip; see Flagellation
  • Walnut Whip - a chocolate sweet
  • The WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol (WHIP) RFC 9725

See also

  • Whiplash (disambiguation)
  • Whipped (disambiguation), or whipping
  • Whippy (disambiguation), or Whippey
  • WIP (disambiguation)
  • WIPP (disambiguation)