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), an American 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
Sungai Petani–Inner Kedah Expressway, a proposed expressway in Kedah, Malaysia