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

Skin(s) or The Skin(s) 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 entertainment

Film

• The Skin, a 1981 Italian film by Liliana Cavani
• Skin (1995 film), a British short film directed by Vincent O'Connell
• Skins (2002 film), an American drama film
• Skin (2008 film), a British-South African biographical film about Sandra Laing
• Skins (2017 film), a Spanish drama film
• Skin (2018 feature film), an American drama film by Guy Nattiv
• Skin (2018 short film), an American Oscar-winning drama film by Guy Nattiv
• Skin: The Movie (2018 film), an American comedy film by Ronn Kilby
• Skin (2020 film), an Iranian drama film

Literature

Novels

• Skin (Andrew novel), a 2021 novel by Kerry Andrew
• Skin (Dekker novel), a 2007 novel by Ted Dekker
• Skin (Hayder novel), a 2009 novel by Mo Hayder
• Skin (graphic novel), a 1992 graphic novel by Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthy
• Skin, an X-Files novel by Ben Mezrich
• The Skin (novel), a 1949 novel by Curzio Malaparte
• Skins, a 1995 novel by Adrian C. Louis

Other

• "Skin" (short story), a 1952 short story by Roald Dahl
• Skin and Other Stories, a 2000 story collection by Roald Dahl
• Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature, a 1994 collection of essays by Dorothy Allison
• Skin (Marvel Comics), a fictional character
• Skin, a 1995 play by Naomi Iizuka

Music

Performers

• Skin (British band), a hard rock band, or their 1994 debut album
• Skin (Japanese band) or S.K.I.N, a rock supergroup
• Skin (musician) (born 1967), British singer, lead vocalist for Skunk Anansie
• The World of Skin, also known as Skin, an American band

Albums

• Skin (16volt album) or the title song, 1994
• Skin (Endorphin album) or the title song, 1999
• Skin (Erik Friedlander album), 2000
• Skin (Flume album), 2016
  • Skin: The Remixes, 2017
• Skin (Joy Crookes album), 2021
• Skin (Katie Noonan album), 2007
• Skin (Melissa Etheridge album), 2001
• Skin (Peter Hammill album) or the title song, 1986
• Skin (Peter Himmelman album), 1994
• Skin (The Rainmakers album) or the title song, 1996
• Skins (Buffalo Tom album), 2011
• Skins (XXXTentacion album), 2018
• Skins! Bongo Party with Les Baxter, 1957
• Skin (EP), by Collide, 1996

Songs

• "Skin" (Breaking Benjamin song), 2003
• "Skin" (Rag'n'Bone Man song), 2017
• "Skin" (Rihanna song), 2010
• "Skin" (Sabrina Carpenter song), 2021
• " Skin (Sarabeth)", by Rascal Flatts, 2005
• "Skin", by Adema from the album Adema, 2001
• "Skin", by Alexz Johnson from Instant Star: Greatest Hits, 2009
• "Skin", by Beartooth from Below, 2018
• "Skin", by Bladee from Eversince, 2016
• "Skin", by Bullet for My Valentine from Venom, 2015
• "Skin", by Club 8 from Pleasure, 2015
• "Skin", by Collective Soul from Blender, 2000
• "Skin", by Flowers from Icehouse, 1980
• "Skin", by Grimes from Visions, 2012
• "Skin", by Mac Miller from The Divine Feminine, 2016
• "Skin", by Machinae Supremacy from Overworld, 2008
• "Skin", by Madonna from Ray of Light, 1998
• "Skin", by Oingo Boingo from Dark at the End of the Tunnel, 1990
• "Skin", by R. Kelly, 2008
• "Skin", by Rae Morris from Unguarded, 2015
• "Skin", by San Cisco from Flaws, 2020
• "Skin", by Spacey Jane from Sunlight, 2020
• "Skin", by Spock's Beard from Day for Night, 1999
• "Skin", by White Zombie from Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, 2008
• "Skin, No. 1" and "Skin, No. 2", by Julius Hemphill from Coon Bid'ness, 1975
• "Skins", by Pink Floyd from The Endless River, 2014
• "Skinz", by Pete Rock & CL Smooth from Mecca and the Soul Brother, 1992

Video games

• Skin, in video game terminology, a player customization option for the outward appearance of an item.

Television

• Skins (British TV series), a 2007–2013 teen drama series
  • Skins (American TV series), an adaptation that aired on MTV in 2011
• Skin (American TV series), a 2003 drama series
• Skin (British TV programme), a 1980–1982 documentary programme
• "Skin" (Almost Human), an episode
• "Skin" (Supernatural), an episode
• Skin (Emmerdale), a character
• Skins, a species of aliens in Roswell
• Skin (2019 documentary), a documentary on perceptions of beauty based on skin color in Africa

Sports

• Skins (sportswear), a company that manufactures and sells compression sportswear
• Skins game, a type of golf and curling event
• Skins, the team that plays a sport shirtless in shirts versus skins
• Washington Commanders, formerly the Washington Redskins, sometimes shortened to Skins

Other uses

• Skin (anthropology), a form of social categorisation system in Australian Indigenous societies
• Skin (computing), a customized graphical presentation for computer software and websites
• Polaris Skin, an Italian ultralight trike design

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with skin
• All pages with titles containing skin
• Skinning (disambiguation)
• Skinny (disambiguation)

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