Spike

Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

Biology

Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
Spine (zoology), a hard, needle-like anatomical structure

Spike Art Quarterly an art magazine based in Berlin and Vienna est. 2004
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
The Spike (1980), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
The Spike (1997), a novel by Damien Broderick
Spike Magazine, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996

Spike (character), a list of fictional characters named Spike
Spike (company), a video game company
Spike (dog), a dog actor
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
Spike (2008 film), directed by Robert Beaucage

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 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

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

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

Spike (database), a biological database
Spike (software development), a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task
Spiking (mobile app), a mobile social trading platform
SPIKE algorithm, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations

Cleat (shoe), protrusion on the sole of a shoe to provide traction
- Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, to maximize traction
Nail (fastener), especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long
- Rail spike, or screw spike, used to construct railroad tracks
Spindle (stationery), an upright spike used to hold papers
Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)
Spike strip, a device used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles

Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
Spiking the guns, rendering a muzzle-loading gun temporarily inoperable by driving a nail into the vent

Spike (journalism), to decide not to publish or publicize a story
Spiking, the addition of alcohol or another drug to a typically nonalcoholic drink
- Mickey Finn (drugs), a drink laced with an incapacitating drug
Colloquial name for a workhouse