A snake is an elongated, legless, predatory reptile.

Snake or Snakes may also refer to:

Devices

  • Bore snake, a tool to clean guns
  • Plumber's snake
  • Snake cable

Games and toys

  • Snake (video game genre)
  • Snake (1998 video game), a game included on Nokia cellphones
  • Snakes (N-Gage game)
  • S.N.A.K.E., a G.I. Joe accessory
  • Mehen (game), an ancient Egyptian board game depicting a snake

Music

Performers

  • The Snakes, a British-Norwegian hard rock band
  • "Snake", Denis Bélanger (born 1960), Canadian vocalist of the heavy metal band Voivod
  • "Snake", Axana Ceulemans, member of the 1990s Belgian girl group Def Dames Dope
  • Mark "Snake" Luckhurst (born 1961), British bass guitarist and a founding member of the hard rock band Thunder
  • Dave "The Snake" Sabo (born 1964), American guitarist in the heavy metal band Skid Row
  • DJ Snake, French record producer and DJ

Albums

  • Snake (album), by Exuma, 1972
  • The Snake (Shane MacGowan album), 1994
  • The Snake (Wildbirds & Peacedrums album), 2008
  • The Snake, a Harvey Mandel album

Songs

  • "Snake" (R. Kelly song), 2003
  • Snake (Yorushika song), 2025
  • "Snake", by Muddy Waters
  • "Snake", by PJ Harvey from Rid of Me, 1993
  • "Snake", by G-Unit
  • "Snake", by Ronnie Lane
  • "Snake", by King Curtis, 2000
  • The Snake (song), 1960s song recorded by Oscar Brown and by Al Wilson
  • "The Snake", by Joe Satriani on the album Not of This Earth
  • "The Snake", by Johnny Rivers on the album ...And I Know You Wanna Dance
  • "Snakes", by No Doubt on the album The Beacon Street Collection
  • "Snakes", by Voltaire on the album The Devil's Bris
  • "Snakes", by Papa Roach on the album Infest
  • "Snakes", by Six Feet Under on the album True Carnage
  • "Snakes", by Bastille on the album Wild World
  • "Snakes", by Prodigy on the album Hegelian Dialectic
  • "Snakes", by Joey Badass on the album 1999

Places

  • Snake Creek (disambiguation)
  • Snake Hill, in the U.S. state of New Jersey
  • Snake Island (disambiguation)
  • Snake River (disambiguation)

People

  • Snake Indians, Native Americans
  • Reuben Snake (1937–1993), Native American activist, educator, spiritual leader, and tribal leader
  • Snake Shyam (born 1967), Indian wildlife conservationist
  • The Snake (nickname), various people nicknamed either The Snake or Snake
  • "The Snake", ring name of Jake Roberts (born 1955), American professional wrestler
  • Snake Williams, a professional wrestler from All-Star Wrestling

Fictional characters

  • Snake Plissken, protagonist of the films Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.
  • a nickname of John Clark, in Tom Clancy novels and film adaptations
  • Snake Jailbird, a Simpsons character
  • Archie "Snake" Simpson, a Degrassi character
  • Snakes, one of two time traveling warring factions in The Big Time, a science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber
  • Snake, a character from the Zero Escape series of visual novels
  • Snake, a Black Butler character
  • Snake, a The Karate Kid Part III character
  • Snake, a The Powerpuff Girls character
  • Snake, a Snake Tales character
  • Snakes, a member of the Union in Marvel Comics
  • Snake, a Vinland Saga character
  • Snake, any of several characters in the Metal Gear video game series
  • Solid Snake
  • Liquid Snake
  • Naked Snake, A.K.A. Big Boss
  • Venom Snake, A.K.A. Punished Snake

Sports teams

  • Aberdare RFC, a rugby union club based in Aberdare, Wales, United Kingdom
  • Arizona Diamondbacks, a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, United States
  • Columbus Cottonmouths, an ice hockey team based in Columbus, Georgia, United States
  • Lugano Snakes, former name of the Lugano Tigers, a Swiss basketball club

In the military

  • HMS Snake, several Royal Navy ships
  • a nickname of the Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter
  • nickname of a variant of the Mark 81 bomb

Literature

  • "Snake", a 1921 poem by D. H. Lawrence
  • The Snake (Dagerman novel) (), a 1945 novel by Stig Dagerman
  • The Snake (Spillane novel), a 1964 novel by Mickey Spillane
  • Snake, a 1975 novel by James H. McClure
  • Snake!, a 1976 novel by Naomi Mitchison
  • The Snake, a 1978 novel by Morton Freedgood
  • Snakes, a 1986 novel by Guy N. Smith
  • Snake, a 1991 novel in the Degrassi Classic series of novels by Catherine Dunphy
  • Snake, a 1996 novel by Kate Jennings
  • The Snake, a 1997 novel by Suhayl Saadi, writing as Melanie Desmoulins
  • Snake, a 2005 novel by Jeff Stone, the third volume in The Five Ancestors series
  • Snakes, a book by Indian science writer Sukanya Datta

Other uses

  • Snake (computer vision)
  • Snake (zodiac)
  • The Snake (TV series), a 2025 reality competition series
  • "Snakes" (CSI), an episode of Season 5 of the television series CSI
  • Snake, a large sculpture created by Richard Serra
  • Snake Kung Fu
  • Snake, nickname of the first of two NZR B class (1874) steam locomotives
  • Snake Projection, a map projection for linear projects
  • The Snake (film), a 2026 Canadian comedy film

See also

  • Rubik's Snake, a puzzle toy