Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Books

  • The Spike (novel), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
  • The Spike (Broderick book), a nonfiction book by Damien Broderick
  • The Spike, a starship in Peter F. Hamilton's The Evolutionary Void

Comics

  • Spike (DC Thomson) a British comics anthology published by DC Thomson
  • Spike (IDW Publishing), an American comic book series featuring the Buffy the Vampire Slayer character

Film and television

  • Spike (2008 film), directed by Robert Beaucage
  • Spike (dog actor)
  • Spike (TV channel), a former name of the American cable network Paramount Network
  • 5Spike, a former localized British version of the American channel
  • Spike (Australian TV channel), a localized version of the American channel
  • Spike (Dutch TV channel), a localized version of the American channel
  • "Spike!", a segment of the 2017 Thai TV series Project S: The Series

Music

  • Spike (Agata album), 2004
  • Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), 2001
  • Spike (Elvis Costello album), 1989
  • Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments
  • "Spike", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the album Southern Accents
  • "Spike", a song by The Network from the album Money Money 2020
  • "Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit

Periodicals

  • Spike Art Magazine, an art magazine based in Berlin and Vienna est. 2004
  • Spike Magazine, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Spike (character), a list of fictional characters named Spike
  • Spike (company), a video game company
  • Spike (journalism), to decide not to publish or publicize a story
  • 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

Biology and medicine

  • Spike (botany), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis
  • Spike (neuroscience), or action potential
  • SPIKES, a clinical protocol used to break bad news to patients
  • Spike protein, a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells
  • Spine (zoology), a hard, needle-like anatomical structure

People

Names

  • Spike (nickname), a list of people
  • Spike (surname), a list of people
  • Spikes (surname), a list of people

People with the name or stage name

In film

  • Spike Jonze, an American filmmaker
  • Spike Lee, an American filmmaker

In music

  • 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 Jones, American bandleader and humorist
  • 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

In professional wrestling

  • Spike Dudley, the ring name of 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

Sport

  • 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 baseball team that plays in the MLB Draft League
  • Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction

Technology

Computing

  • Spike (application), an email app which displays email in a chat-like format
  • Spike (database), a biological database
  • Spiking (fintech), a social trading platform
  • Spike (software development), a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task
  • SPIKE algorithm, a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations
  • Spike, a command in Microsoft Word

Mechanical devices

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

Other uses in technology

  • Spike (missile) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)
  • NAVAIR Spike
  • Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
  • Spiking a gun, a method of rendering a cannon temporarily inoperable by driving a metal spike into the touch hole

Other uses

  • Spike, to add alcohol or another recreational drug to a typically non-alcoholic drink or foodstuff
  • Mickey Finn (drugs), a drink laced with an incapacitating drug
  • Spike, a colloquial name for a workhouse
  • Spike, Michigan, a former settlement
  • Needle spiking, alleged surreptitious injection of drugs
  • Tree spiking, a radical environmentalist tactic
  • Virgin's Spike (Latin: spīca virginis), for the star Spica
  • Sungai Petani–Inner Kedah Expressway, a proposed expressway in Kedah, Malaysia

See also

  • Golden Spike (disambiguation)
  • Spike Island (disambiguation)
  • Spiked (disambiguation)
  • Spiker (disambiguation)
  • The Spike (disambiguation)