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A spider is an air-breathing eight-legged animal of the phylum Arthropoda, class Arachnida, and order Araneae, with chelicerae modified into fangs to inject venom.

Spider may also refer to:

Publications [link]

Comics [link]

• Alias the Spider, a DC comics character introduced in 1940
• Spider (pulp fiction), a 1933–1943 pulp magazine hero
• Spider (British comics), a 1965–1969 British comic book character, later reprinted in Vulcan
• The Spiders, a webcomic by Patrick S. Farley
• Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist of the comic book Transmetropolitan
• Spider, a character from the Buffyverse comics^[1]
• Spider, a character who appeared in The Goon^[2]
• The Spider, an alias used by Bret Leather in Warren Ellis' Planetary^[3]
• Scarlet Spider, an alias used by a number of Marvel Comics characters
• Spider-Boy, an Amalgam Comics character combining Scarlet Spider and Super Boy
• Spider Girl, a DC Comics character
• Spider-Girl, a Marvel Comics character from an alternate future
• Spider-Man, a Marvel Comics character
• Spider-Woman, a number of Marvel Comics characters
• Spider-X, a Marvel Comics character often mistaken for Spider-Man
• Spyder (comics), a Marvel Comics character
• Steel Spider, also known as Spider-Kid

Other publications [link]

• Spider (novel), by Patrick McGrath
• Spider (magazine), a children's literary magazine
• Spider (computer magazine), a monthly magazine published in Karachi, Pakistan
• Al-Ankabut (The Spider), a chapter of the Qur'an
• Spider map: a schematic diagram of bus services serving a particular locality, used by Transport for London

Culinary [link]

• Spider (utensil), a basket with a long handle
• Ice cream soda, a beverage
• A type of frying pan with legs

Film and television [link]

• The Spiders (film), a 1919 mystery-action film by Fritz Lang
• The Spider (1940 film), a British film by Maurice Elvey
• The Spider (film), a 1945 film noir by Robert D. Webb
• The Spider, an alternate name for the 1958 horror film Earth vs. the Spider
• Spider (film), a 2002 psychological thriller by David Cronenberg
• Spider! (TV series)
• Spider, a cartoon character by Osamu Tezuka
• Spider-Man, a movie character

Games and sport [link]

• Spiders, classic arcade game, also available on MAME
• Spider, a character in Mega Man X: Command Mission
• Spider (solitaire), a card game
• Spider: The Video Game
• Richmond Spiders, the sports teams of the University of Richmond
• Cleveland Spiders, a 1887–1899 American baseball team
• San Francisco Spiders, a 1996 American hockey team
• Spider, a piece of snooker equipment

Land vehicles [link]

• Roadster (automobile), a style of two-seater car
• Alfa Romeo Spider, a vehicle introduced in 1966
• Spider Light Strike Vehicle, a light strike vehicle produced by ST Kinetics

Mathematics [link]

• spider - see Thurston-Hubbard-Schleicher spider algorithm

Music [link]

• Spider (band), a 1980s American rock band
• The Spiders (band), a 1950s R&B group
• The Spiders (Japanese band),
• Spiders (album), by Space
• "Spiders" (Moby song)
• "Spiders" (System of a Down song)
• "Spiders" (Destine song)
• "Spiders", a song by Editors on the album An End Has a Start
• "The Spider", a song by Kansas on the album Point of Know Return
• "Spider", a song by Oingo Boingo on the album Boingo
• "Spider", a single by Spitz
• "Spider", a song by They Might Be Giants on the album Apollo 18
• "Spider", a song by The Vapors on the album Magnets
• "Spiders (Kidsmoke)", a song by Wilco on the album A Ghost Is Born
• The Spiders, an early name for the band Alice Cooper
• The Spiders from Mars, backing band for David Bowie.

People [link]

• Michael David Cummings (a.k.a. Spider One), the lead vocalist for alternative metal band Powerman 5000
• Spider Robinson, science fiction writer
• Spider Sabich, alpine ski racer
• Spider Stacy, English musician and member of The Pogues
• Matthew Burton, Australian rules footballer for Fremantle and North Melbourne, nicknamed "Spider"
• Peter Everitt, Australian rules footballer for Hawthorn and Sydney, nicknamed "Spida"
• Anderson Silva, Brazilian mixed martial arts fighter, nicknamed "Spider"

Technology [link]

• AMD Spider, a computer platform
• SS-23 Spider, a ballistic missile
• Spider (polarimeter), an experiment to study the cosmic microwave background radiation
• Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction, an ultrashort pulse measurement technique
• Search Engine Spider commonly known as a Web crawler, an automated software agent that gathers pages from the World Wide Web
• Spider, the callsign of the Apollo 9 lunar module
• a bicycle component part:
  • crankset
  • cassette
  • disc brake rotor
• A support for the secondary mirror of a reflecting telescope
• A component of a loudspeaker
• SPIDER, a system for laparoscopic surgery
• A 45 RPM adapter for a phonograph record.

Other uses [link]

• Spider crater, Western Australia
• Spider angioma, a skin growth
• Spider, an alternate name for the SPDR brand of exchange-traded investment fund
• "The Spider", another name for the Pantheon Fossae surface formation on Mercury
• 4th Guards Brigade "Spiders", a former Croatian army unit

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See also [link]

• Spyder (disambiguation)

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