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Steel Ball Run: JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Steel Ball Run (スティール・ボール・ラン) is Part 7 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, serialized 2004–2011 in Weekly Shonen Jump and Ultra Jump. Set in 1890 America, it follows paraplegic jockey Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli in a 6,000 km horse race for $50 million; a David Production anime premiered on Netflix March 19, 2026.
Steel casting
Steel casting is a manufacturing process in which molten steel, melted at about 1,600 °C, is poured into a mold and solidified into a near-final shape.
Steel Curtain
Steel Curtain: nickname of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers' defensive line (Joe Greene, Ernie Holmes, L.C. Greenwood, Dwight White) and later the whole defense; a play on Iron Curtain, backing four Super Bowl wins.
Steel dam
A steel dam is a fixed wall built as a steel deck supported by inclined steel struts. Only three were constructed in the United States between 1897 and 1910.
Steel Dawn
Steel Dawn is a 1987 post-apocalyptic action film directed by Lance Hool, starring Patrick Swayze as Nomad, defending a desert town's water from Damnil; formerly titled Desert Warrior and Peacekeeper, filmed in Namibia, distributed by Vestron Pictures.
Steel Dome
Steel Dome (Turkish: Çelik Kubbe) is Türkiye's national integrated air and missile defense architecture, a layered system of systems announced in 2024, with first deliveries of 47 vehicles in August 2025.
Steel Dynamics
Steel Dynamics, Inc. is an American electric arc furnace steelmaker and metals recycler headquartered in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Founded in 1993, it also produces flat rolled aluminum.
Steel frame
A steel frame, also called skeleton frame construction, is a building structure of vertical steel columns and horizontal beams carrying the entire load, so walls need not bear weight.
Steel grades
Steel grades, also known as steel grading, are standardized variants of steel, an iron-carbon alloy with under 2% carbon, with over 3,500 grades each designed for a specific application.
Steel guitar
The steel guitar is a guitar played horizontally with a metal bar rather than fretted by hand, originating in Hawaii and central to Hawaiian and country music.
Steel Magnolias
Steel Magnolias is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Herbert Ross, adapted from Robert Harling's play, about six women who gather at a Louisiana beauty shop; it earned Julia Roberts an Academy Award nomination.
Steel mill
A steel mill, also known as a steel works or steel factory, is an industrial plant that turns iron ore and recycled scrap into finished steel through ironmaking, steelmaking, casting, and rolling.
Steel Panther
Steel Panther (Metal Shop, Metal Skool) is a Los Angeles glam metal parody band formed in 2000, fronted by Michael Starr (Ralph Saenz), known for Feel the Steel (2009), six albums, and crude 1980s hair-metal satire.
Steel Pier (Atlantic City)
Steel Pier is an amusement pier on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey, opened in 1898 and once billed as the Showplace of the Nation.
Steel Pulse
Steel Pulse is a British roots reggae band formed in 1975 in Handsworth, Birmingham, led by David Hinds and Selwyn Brown. Known for Handsworth Revolution (1978), the 1986 Grammy-winning Babylon the Bandit, and playing Bill Clinton's 1993 inaugural.
Steel Rain (강철비)
Steel Rain (강철비) is a 2017 South Korean political action thriller directed by Yang Woo-suk, adapted from his own webtoon, in which a North Korean agent defects with the wounded leader after a coup to stop a nuclear war; it drew about 4.45 million admissions and a 2020 sequel.
Steel Rain 2: Summit (スティール・レイン)
Steel Rain 2: Summit (강철비2: 정상회담) is a 2020 South Korean thriller by Yang Woo-suk, sequel to Steel Rain, in which a North Korean coup traps the South, North, and US leaders on the nuclear submarine Baekdu-ho.
Steel Serpent
Steel Serpent is the Marvel Comics supervillain Davos, son of Lei-Kung the Thunderer and arch-nemesis of Iron Fist, created by Claremont and Byrne in 1975; he steals the Iron Fist's chi and is played by Sacha Dhawan in Netflix's Iron Fist.
Steel syndrome
Steel syndrome (STLS, OMIM 615155): rare autosomal recessive skeletal dysplasia from biallelic COL27A1 variants, with short stature, congenital hip and radial head dislocation, carpal coalition, scoliosis; Puerto Rican founder mutation p.Gly697Arg.
Steel Vengeance
Steel Vengeance is a Rocky Mountain Construction hyper-hybrid roller coaster at Cedar Point, Sandusky, Ohio, opened May 5, 2018 on the former Mean Streak's structure; 205 ft, 74 mph, 5,740 ft, 4 inversions, record airtime.
Steel Wheels
Steel Wheels is a 1989 studio album by the Rolling Stones, their first in three years, reaching the Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic.
Steel Wool Studios
Steel Wool Studios, also known as Steel Wool Games, is an American video game studio founded in 2012 by five Pixar veterans, best known for Five Nights at Freddy's.
Steelcase
Steelcase is an American office furniture manufacturer founded in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1912, known for ergonomic seating such as the Leap and Gesture chairs.
Steele dossier
Steele dossier: 17 memos by ex-MI6 officer Christopher Steele, funded via Fusion GPS for Clinton-linked law firm, alleging Trump-Russia coordination; published by BuzzFeed January 10, 2017; central to Carter Page FISA controversy.
Steele Island
Steele Island, an ice rise on the Larsen Ice Front off the Black Coast of Palmer Land, British Antarctic Territory, at 71°00'S 60°43'W; surveyed by USAS in 1940 and named for Clarence E. Steele, East Base tractor driver.
Steeleye Span
Steeleye Span is an English folk rock band formed in 1969 by Ashley Hutchings, Maddy Prior, and Tim Hart, named after a character in the song 'Horkstow Grange'; with Fairport Convention it defined British folk rock, scoring hits with 'Gaudete' (1973) and 'All Around My Hat' (1975).
Steelhead
Steelhead are the anadromous ocean-migrating form of rainbow trout, Oncorhynchus mykiss, not a separate species. Distinguished by iteroparous repeat spawning, up to 30 lb size, 11 ESA-listed West Coast DPSs, and hatchery-wild genetic management issues.
Steelheart
Steelheart is an American hard rock band formed in 1990 in Norwalk, Connecticut, also known as Red Alert, led by Croatian-born vocalist Miljenko Matijevic; known for the platinum 1990 debut, "She's Gone," and the 1992 stage accident.
Steelmaking
Steelmaking, also known as steel production, is the set of industrial processes converting pig iron, direct reduced iron, and recycled scrap into crude steel via basic oxygen and electric arc furnaces.
Steelpan
Steelpan (steel drum, pan): pitched percussion instrument invented in Trinidad and Tobago around 1939 from 55-gallon oil drums; national instrument, born from tamboo bamboo after colonial drum bans, with Panorama competition since 1963.