Spike

Spike(s) may refer to:

Device to puncture or fasten

• Nail (fastener), especially one over ten inches long
• Rail spike, or Screw spike used to construct railroad tracks
• Tree spiking, making a tree dangerous to cut with a chainsaw
• "Spiking a gun", rendering a muzzle-loading gun inoperable by driving a nail into the touch hole
• Spike strip, tire deflation device
• Spike bayonet, an attachment for a firearm
• Punji stick, a type of booby trapped stake, usually deployed in substantial numbers
• Cleat (shoe), protrusions on the sole of a shoe
• Caltrop, an antipersonnel weapon made up of two or more sharp nails or spines arranged in such a manner that one of them always points upward from a stable base (for example, a tetrahedron)

Media

Characters

• Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel
• Spike the Bulldog, a character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons
• Spike (Marvel Comics), the name of several fictional characters in Marvel Comics
• Christine "Spike" Nelson, a character in the Degrassi television series
• Spike (Peanuts character), Snoopy's sibling
• Spike Lester, a character in the Passions television series
• Spike Spiegel, a character in Cowboy Bebop media
• Spike (Dragon Ball) or Akkuman, a character in Dragon Ball media
• The Spike, one of the Titans in the 2007 video game Crash of the Titans
• Spike, a character in Dinosaurs media
• Spike (The Land Before Time), a character in The Land Before Time media
• Spike (Rugrats), Tommy's adoptive dog from Nickelodeon's Rugrats
• Spike, a character in the Space Quest V: The Next Mutation universe
• Cecil "Spike" Wilson, a character in the Sugar and Spike universe
• Spike (Tom and Jerry), an MGM cartoon character associated with the Tom and Jerry cartoons
• Spike (MGM cartoon series), another MGM cartoon character associated with the Droopy cartoons
• Spike Witwicky, a character in the Transformers franchise
• Spike, a name given to similar fictional characters in My Little Pony, each in different generations respectively
  • Spike, a generation 1 baby dragon who either;
    • is Majesty's pet as in early releases, or,
    • once a servant of Scorpan, later joined Megan's side, as voiced by Charlie Adler in mid-1980s animated features
  • Spike (voiced by Brian Drummond), a generation 3 dragon character who made appearances in My Little Pony: The Princess Promenade and My Little Pony Crystal Princess: The Runaway Rainbow
  • Spike (voiced by Cathy Weseluck in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic), a generation 4 baby dragon who is Twilight Sparkle's assistant since his birth
• Spyke, the X-Men: Evolution character
• Spikes (baseball team mascot), the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings

Music

• Spike (Elvis Costello album), 1989
• Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), 2001
• Spike (Agata album), 2004
• Spike (musician), singer of The Quireboys
• A song from The Network album Money Money 2020
• Spike (rapper), a Romanian hip hop artist

Books and magazines

• Spike Magazine, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996
• The Spike (1980), a 1980 novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
• The Spike (1997), novel by Damien Broderick
• Spike (DC Thomson) a short lived Comics anthology published by DC Thomson
• Spike (IDW Publishing), a comic book series published by IDW Publishing

Film and television

• Spike (TV channel), an American cable network
• Spike (2008 film), directed by Robert Beaucage
• Spike of Bensonhurst, a 1988 comedy-drama film starring Sasha Mitchell
• Spike (stagecraft), a theatrical term
• Spike (dog), a dog actor best known for his performance as Old Yeller

Sports

• Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction
• Cleat (shoe), a type of shoe designed especially for sports played on grass or dirt, such as soccer or American football
• Spike (Volleyball), jumping, raising one arm above the head and hitting the ball so it will move quickly down to the ground on the opponent's court
• Spike (gridiron football), a play in American football
• State College Spikes, a minor league baseball team that currently plays in the New York – Penn League
• Spikes (baseball team mascot), the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings

Biology

• Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
• Spike (database) biological database
• Alabama spike, a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels
• Brother spike, a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels
• Diffraction spike, lines radiating from bright light sources in reflecting telescope images
• False spike, a species of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Unionidae, the river mussels
• Fern spike, the occurrence of abundant fern spores in the fossil record, usually immediately (in a geological sense) after an extinction event

Other uses

• Bird control spike, a device consisting of long, needle-like rods used for bird control
• Spike (computer science), an Agile programming term for a minimal prototype implementation of some system functionality that nonetheless encompasses the entire range of system operability
• Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation ATGM
• Spike (company), a video game company
• Spike Island (disambiguation)
• Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments
• Spike (journalism), to decide not to publish or make public, a matter of concern in journalism ethics and standards
• Spike (video gaming), generally used to describe a tactic in which a player or group of players deals a large amount of damage to a target simultaneously
• Mickey Finn (drugs), drink spiking: to covertly put alcohol or another intoxicating substance in a drink that previously did not contain such substances
• Spike Shooter, a sports energy drink
• Action potential, a concept in neuroscience
• Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge
• SPIKE algorithm, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations
• Colloquial name for a workhouse
• Hail spike, an artifact on a weather radar display indicative of large hail
• Ice spike, an upward-facing icicle that forms as a body of water freezes

Surname

• John Spikes (1881–1955), American jazz musician and entrepreneur
• Reb Spikes (1888–1982), American jazz saxophonist and entrepreneur
• Robert W. Spike (1923–1966), American clergyman, theologian, and civil rights leader
• Spike (Welsh guitarist), Welsh guitarist
• John Spike (born 1951), American art historian, curator, and author, specializing in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods
• Michèle Kahn Spike, American lawyer, historian, and prominent lay figure in the Episcopalian church
• Moondog Spike, professional wrestler
• Paul Spike, American author, editor and journalist
• Brandon Spikes (born 1987), American football linebacker for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL)
• Cameron Spikes (born 1976), former American football guard of the National Football League
• Charlie Spikes (born 1951), Major League Baseball player
• Irving Spikes (born 1970), former professional American football player who played running back for four seasons for the Miami Dolphins
• Jack Spikes (born 1937), former American collegiiate and Professional Football running back and placekicker
• Jesse Spikes (born 1950), corporate lawyer in Atlanta, Georgia, who was a candidate in the 2009 Atlanta mayoral race
• Richard Spikes (1884–1962), African-American engineer from San Francisco, California

See also

• Spike (given name)
• Spiked (disambiguation)
• The Spike (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing "Spike"
• All pages beginning with "Spike"