Creep, Creeps, CREEP, or Creeping may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

  • Creeps (film), a 1956 short starring the Three Stooges
  • The Creeps (film), a 1997 film directed by Charles Band
  • Creep (2004 film), a 2004 British-German horror film
  • Creep (2014 film), an American found-footage horror film
  • Creep 2, a 2017 American found-footage horror film; sequel to the 2014 film
  • The Creeping (film), a 2022 British horror film

Television

  • "The Creeps", an episode of the TV series Adventure Time

Gaming

  • "Creep", a carpet of bio-matter Zerg colonies produce in the StarCraft video game franchise
  • The Creeps!, a 2008 tower defense video game

Literature

  • Creeps (novel), a 2013 young adult novel by Darren Hynes
  • The Creeping (novel), a 2015 young adult novel by Alexandra Sirowy

Music

Groups

  • Creep (band), an American electronic music band
  • The Creeps, a 1980s Swedish band that won the Rockbjörnen prize in 1990
  • The Creeps, a 1960s South African band featuring David Kramer

Albums

  • Creeps, 2015 album from Indian Handcrafts

Songs

  • "Creep" (Mobb Deep song)
  • "Creep" (Radiohead song)
  • "Creep" (Stone Temple Pilots song)
  • "Creep" (TLC song)
  • "The Creep" (song), by the Lonely Island
  • "The Creeps" (Camille Jones song), remixed by, among others, Fedde le Grand
  • "The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor)", song by the Freaks
  • "Creeping" (song), a 2018 single by Lil Skies featuring Rich the Kid
  • "Creepin'" (Eric Church song), 2011
  • "Creepin'", (Kingswood song), 2016
  • "Creepin'" (Metro Boomin, the Weeknd and 21 Savage song), 2023
  • "Creep", a song by Dannii Minogue on the album Neon Nights
  • "C.R.E.E.P.", a song by the Fall
  • "The Creep", a 1950s instrumental by Ken Mackintosh
  • "Creepin'", a 1974 song by Stevie Wonder from his album Fulfillingness' First Finale

Theatre

  • Creeps (play), a 1971 play by David E. Freeman

Project management

  • Feature creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software
  • Instruction creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions
  • Job creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of job responsibilities
  • Mission creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission
  • Scope creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project

Science

  • Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses
  • Coble creep
  • Diffusion creep
  • Dislocation creep
  • Nabarro–Herring creep
  • Creep, the advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip; see rail adhesion
  • Idle creep, the tendency of a car with an automatic transmission to roll without the brakes engaged or the gear set to neutral
  • Creeping wave, a type of electromagnetic diffraction
  • Aseismic creep, a slow, steady movement along an earthquake fault
  • Chip creep, phenomenon of chips moving out of sockets
  • Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low-grade slope
  • Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems
  • Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container; see Superfluidity

Other

  • Creepiness, causing a feeling of unease
  • Creeping attack, war tactic used against submarines
  • Creeping normality, process by which a change can be accepted through happening slowly
  • Creeping Jesus, pejorative term for someone making public display of religiosity or piety in a manner which seems hypocritical and simply for show
  • Ad creep, process of increasing advertising over time
  • Cattle creep, a type of accessway between fields for livestock
  • Christmas creep, phenomenon of Christmas merchandising before the holiday season
  • Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP), mockingly abbreviated as CREEP, a fundraising organization for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign
  • Concept creep, the expansion of a concept to include increasing amounts of topics
  • Creep feeding, method of supplementing the diet of nursing livestock
  • Fader creep, sound engineering phenomenon
  • Lifestyle creep, social phenomenon through which former luxuries become perceived as necessities due to a higher standard of living
  • Zoom creep, photography phenomenon

See also

  • Creeper (disambiguation)
  • Creepshow (disambiguation)
  • Creepy (disambiguation)
  • KREEP (coined from abbreviations for "potassium", "rare-earth elements", and "phosphorus"), component of some lunar rocks