A spa is a therapeutic water treatment.

Spa or SPA may also refer to:

Water

  • Day spa
  • Destination spa
  • Mineral spa
  • Spa town, a town noted for its spa

Places

Europe

  • Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, or Spa, a motor-racing circuit in Francorchamps, Belgium
  • SPA, the UNDP country code assigned to Spain by the United Nations Development Programme
  • Spa, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium
  • Spa, County Down, a village in Northern Ireland
  • Spa, County Kerry, a village in Ireland

Other places

  • South Pole–Aitken basin, an impact crater on the far side of the Moon
  • Spa Creek, a tributary of the Severn River, Annapolis, Maryland, US

Art, entertainment and media

  • SPA (band), a 1990s British band
  • Spa (Sirius XM), a satellite radio music channel
  • Screen Producers Australia, film industry organization
  • Sony Pictures Animation, an American animation studio
  • Summer Performing Arts Company, Grand Forks, North Dakota, US

Businesses and organizations

Government and politics

  • Saudi Press Agency
  • Service Prosecuting Authority, an agency of the Ministry of Defence in the United Kingdom
  • Seychelles Port Authority
  • Socialist Party of America
  • Socialist Party of Australia
  • Socialistische Partij Anders (SP.A), a Flemish Social-Democratic Party
  • Supreme People's Assembly, the parliament of North Korea

Education

  • Schools of Planning and Architecture, in India
  • Society for Popular Astronomy, UK

Business and industry

  • Spa (mineral water), a brand of Belgian mineral water
  • Scottish Publishers Association
  • Sociedade Portuguesa de Autores, a Portuguese copyright-management company
  • Software Publishers Association, former name of the Software and Information Industry Association
  • Sudanese Professionals Association, Sudanese trade union and civic organisation
  • S.P.A. (automobile), Società Piemontese Automobili, a car manufacturer (1908–1926)

Law and economics

  • Sales and purchase agreement
  • Special power of attorney, in law
  • Special Protection Area, EU, for birds
  • Società per azioni (S.p.A.), a type of public limited company in Italy

Science and technology

Computing

  • Secure Password Authentication
  • Sense Plan Act, a robot control methodology
  • Simple power analysis, a type of cryptographic attack
  • Single-page application, a type of web application or app

Biology and medicine

  • Scintillation proximity assay, for biochemical development and screening
  • Spathoglottis, an orchid genus
  • Spondyloarthropathy (SpA), any joint disease of the vertebral column

Vehicles

  • Volvo Scalable Product Architecture platform, an automobile platform created by Volvo Cars

Philosophy

  • Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, the traditional founders of Western philosophy

See also

  • Hot tub
  • Resort