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 (comics), any of several Marvel comic book characters
• 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 (My Little Pony), a character from My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
• Spyke, the X-Men: Evolution character

Music

• Spike (Elvis Costello album), a 1989 album by Elvis Costello
• Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), a 2001 album by Puffy AmiYumi
• 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

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

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

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
• 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
• The spike, slang for an elbow bump
• 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

See also

• Spike (given name)