Spike, spikes, spiking, or spiky may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Books
- The Spike (novel), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
 - The Spike (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), a 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 minor league baseball team that plays in the New York – Penn 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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