Spike

Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

Device to puncture or fasten

• Cleat (shoe), protrusions on the sole of a shoe
• Nail (fastener), especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long
• Rail spike, or screw spike, used to construct railroad tracks
• "Spiking a gun", rendering a muzzle-loading gun inoperable by driving a nail into the touch hole
• Spindle (stationery), an upright spike used to hold papers

Technology and science

• Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
• Spike (database), a biological database
• Action potential, a concept in neuroscience
• Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
• SPIKE algorithm, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations
• Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)

As a name

• Spike (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
• Spike (nickname), a list of people
• Spike (surname), a list of people
• Spikes (surname), a list of people
• Spike Dudley, ring name of former professional wrestler Matt Hyson (born 1970)
• Spike Jonze (born Adam Spiegel in 1969), filmmaker

Sports

• Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction
• Spike (volleyball), a form of volleyball attack
• 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 (mascot), the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings

Entertainment

Music

• Spike (musician), singer of The Quireboys
• Spike (Welsh guitarist), stage name of Mike Williams
• 'Spike', artists name of Frans van Zoest, guitar player of rock band Di-rect
• Spike (Elvis Costello album), 1989
• Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), 2001
• Spike (Agata album), 2004
• A song from The Network album Money Money 2020
• Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments

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
• Spike (Peanuts), a character from Charlie Brown

Film and television

• Spike (TV network), an American cable network
• Spike (2008 film), directed by Robert Beaucage
• Spike (stagecraft), a theatrical term
• Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), a character in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• A character in The Land Before Time

Gaming

• Spike (company), a video game company
• Spike (video game), a 1983 platformer game for the Vectrex video game system
• Spike (video gaming), a tactic in which a player or group of players deals a large amount of damage to a target simultaneously

Other uses

• Spike Island (disambiguation)
• Spike (journalism), to decide not to publish or make public
• Colloquial name for a workhouse
• Mickey Finn (drugs) or drink spiking
• Spike, a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task. The term is popular in agile software development.

See also

• Spiked (disambiguation)
• Golden spike (disambiguation)
• The Spike (disambiguation)
• Spyke, a character in the American animated television series X-Men: Evolution
• All pages with titles containing Spike
• All pages with titles beginning with Spike