Firing may refer to:

Dismissal (employment), sudden loss of employment by termination Firemaking, the act of starting a fire Burning; see combustion Shooting, specifically the discharge of firearms Execution by firing squad, a method of capital punishment Pottery firing in a kiln or oven Pin firing, an old medical treatment applied to horses An action potential, where the depolarization of a neuron causes it to "fire" off an electrical signal down its axon Any material (such as firewood) that can be burned as fuel to release energy

See also Fire and Fire (disambiguation) Fired (disambiguation) Firing squad (disambiguation) Fire-raising (disambiguation) Fire making Firestarter (disambiguation)