Spike

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Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Books

• The Spike (novel), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
• The Spike (Broderick book), a nonfiction book by Damien Broderick
• The Spike, a starship in Peter F. Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void

Comics

• Spike (DC Thomson) a British comics anthology published by DC Thomson
• Spike (IDW Publishing), a comic book series featuring the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

Film and television

• Spike (2008 film), directed by Robert Beaucage
• Spike (dog actor)
• Spike (TV channel), a former name of the American cable network Paramount Network
  • 5Spike, a former localized British version of the American channel
  • Spike (Australian TV channel), a localized version of the American channel
  • Spike (Dutch TV channel), a localized version of the American channel
• "Spike!", a segment of the 2017 Thai TV series Project S: The Series

Music

• Spike (Agata album), 2004
• Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), 2001
• Spike (Elvis Costello album), 1989
• Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments
• "Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit
• "Spike", a song from The Network album Money Money 2020

Periodicals

• Spike Art Quarterly an art magazine based in Berlin and Vienna est. 2004
• Spike Magazine, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Spike (character), a list of fictional characters named Spike
• Spike (company), a video game company
• Spike (journalism), to decide not to publish or publicize a story
• Spike (stagecraft), markings on a stage to show the correct positioning of objects and actors
• Spike (video game), a 1983 platform game for the Vectrex video game system

Biology and medicine

• Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
• Spike (neuroscience), or action potential
• SPIKES, a clinical protocol used to break bad news to patients
• Spike protein, a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells
• Spine (zoology), a hard, needle-like anatomical structure

People

Names

• Spike (nickname), a list of people
• Spike (surname), a list of people
• Spikes (surname), a list of people

People with the name or stage name

In film

• Spike Jonze, an American filmmaker
• Spike Lee, an American filmmaker

In music

• Spike (musician), singer of The Quireboys
• Spike (Welsh guitarist), stage name of Mike Williams
• Spike, stage name of Frans van Zoest, guitar player of rock band Di-rect
• Spike Jones, American bandleader and humorist
• Spike Slawson, American punk vocalist and bassist of the Swinging Utters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• Spike Xavier, lead singer of nu metal band Corporate Avenger

In professional wrestling

• Spike Dudley, the ring name of former American professional wrestler Matthew Jonathan Hyson (born 1970)
• Moondog Spike, the ring name of American professional wrestler Bill Smithson
• Spike Huber, a professional wrestler from the United States Wrestling Association
• Spike, a professional wrestler, half of the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling tag team The Heavy Metal Sisters

Sport

• Spike (gridiron football), a play in American football
• Spike (volleyball), a form of volleyball attack
• Spikes (mascot), the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings
• State College Spikes, a baseball team that plays in the MLB Draft League
• Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction

Technology

Computing

• Spike (application), an email app which displays email in a chat-like format
• Spike (database), a biological database
• Spiking (fintech), a social trading platform
• Spike (software development), a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task
• SPIKE algorithm, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations
• Spike, a command in Microsoft Word

Mechanical devices

• Cleat (shoe), a protrusion on the sole of a shoe to provide traction
  • Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate
• Nail (fastener), or spike, especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long
  • Rail spike, used to construct railroad tracks
  • Screw spike, used to construct railroad tracks
• Spike strip, a device used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles
• Spindle (stationery), an upright spike used to hold papers

Other uses in technology

• Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)
• Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
• Spiking a gun, a method of rendering a cannon temporarily inoperable by driving a metal spike into the touch hole

Other uses

• Spike, to add alcohol or another recreational drug to a typically non-alcoholic drink or foodstuff
  • Mickey Finn (drugs), a drink laced with an incapacitating drug
• Spike, a colloquial name for a workhouse
• Spike, Michigan, a former settlement
• Needle spiking, alleged surreptitious injection of drugs
• Tree spiking, a radical environmentalist tactic
• Virgin's Spike (Latin: spīca virginis), for the star Spica

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Spikes.

• All pages with titles beginning with Spike 
• All pages with titles containing Spike
• Spiked (disambiguation)
• Spiker (disambiguation)
• The Spike (disambiguation)
• Golden spike (disambiguation)
• Spike Island (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with The Spike
• All pages with titles containing The Spike

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This page was last edited on 31 May 2024, at 14:27