Pike

Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:

Fish

• Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct freshwater fish
• Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
• Esox, genus of pikes
  • Northern pike, common northern hemisphere pike
• Mackerel pike or Pacific saury, a fish popular in east Asian cuisine
• Walleyed pike or walleye, Sander vitreus, not actually a pike, but regionally referred to as such

Places

Russia

• Shchukino District (Russian for "Pike" District), an area in North-Western Administrative Okrug, part of the federal city of Moscow.

Canada

• Pike Island (Nunavut)
• Pike River (Quebec)
• Pike Lake (Saskatchewan)

Great Britain

• Clougha Pike, a hill in Lancashire, England
• Cold Pike, a fell in the Lake District, England
• Dollywaggon Pike, a fell in the Lake District, England
• Esk Pike, a fell in the Lake District, England
• Hartshead Pike, a hill in Lancashire, England
• Murton Pike, a hill in Cumbria, England
• Nethermost Pike, a fell in the Lake District, England
• Pikes (hill), a hill in the Lake District, England
• Red Pike (Buttermere), a fell near Buttermere in the Lake District, England
• Red Pike (Wasdale), a fell near Wasdale in the Lake District, England
• Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England
• The Pike (Hesk Fell), one of Wainwright's outlying fells in the Lake District, England

United States

• Pike County (disambiguation)
• Pike Township (disambiguation)
• Pike, Indiana
• Pikeville, Kentucky, originally known as Pike Happy fish that likes pickles
• Pike, New Hampshire
• Pike, New York, a town
  • Pike (CDP), New York, hamlet in the town of Pike
• Pike, Texas, an unincorporated community
• Pike, West Virginia
• Pike Bay Township, Cass County, Minnesota
• Pike Creek, Delaware, an unincorporated community
• Pike Creek Township, Morrison County, Minnesota
• Pike Island, Minnesota
• Pike National Forest, Colorado
• Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington
• Pike Road, Alabama
• Pikes Peak, in Colorado
• The Pike, an amusement park in California

People

• Pike (surname)
• Pike, a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Fictional characters with Pike surname

Music

• Pikes (album), released by Buckethead in 2013
• The Northern Pikes, Canadian rock band

Military

• Pike (weapon), a long thrusting pole weapon used by infantry
• Pike expedition, an American exploration of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
• Pike square, a Swiss military tactic
• HMS Pike, the name of five ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Pike (SS-6), an American Plunger-class submarine
• USS Pike (SS-173), the first all-welded submarine
• Pike (munition), a Raytheon-developed guided round fired from a grenade launcher

Sports

• Pike (diving), a position used in competitive diving
• Pike (gymnastics), a position in which the body is bent only in the hips
• Pike, a variant of the kick (b-boy move)
• Pike, a type of cheerleading jump

Technology

• Pike (cipher), a stream cipher invented by Ross Anderson
• Red Pike (cipher), a British government cipher
• Pike (programming language), an interpreted, general-purpose, high-level, cross-platform, dynamic programming language, with a syntax similar to that of C

Other uses

• Pike or toll road, a course in which fees are collected; sometimes a historical name of a former toll road
• Pike pole, a long-handled reaching, holding, and pulling tool
• Pike potato

See also

• Piker (disambiguation)
• Pikes Peak (disambiguation)
• Pyke (disambiguation)