Spot or SPOT may refer to:

Places

  • The Spot, New South Wales, a locality in Sydney, Australia
  • South Pole Traverse, sometimes called the South Pole Overland Traverse

People

  • Spot Collins (1922-1996), American football player and coach
  • Jack Comer (1912–1996), Polish-born English gangster nicknamed "Spot"
  • Jerry Chamberlain (known as "Spot"), the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies
  • Scott Draves (known as "Spot"), digital artist and VJ
  • Spot (producer), Glenn Michael Lockett (1951–2023), house producer and engineer for the label SST Records
  • Spot (rapper) (born 1987), American rapper
  • Moondog Spot, a ring name for professional wrestler Larry Booker

Advertising

  • Radio spot, an over-the-air advertisement
  • TV spot, a televised advertisement
  • Underwriting spot, an announcement made on public broadcasting outlets, especially in the United States, in exchange for funding

Animals

  • Spot, a dog that remained faithful after his master's death, described in the List of individual dogs
  • Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush

Arts and entertainment

Fictional characters

  • Spot, a character in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated film The Good Dinosaur
  • Spot (chicken), in 101 Dalmatians: The Series
  • Spot (Marvel Comics), a Spider-Man villain
  • Spot (franchise), the titular puppy in a series of children's books and animated television shows created by Eric Hill
  • Spot (Star Trek), a pet cat in Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Spot, a pet dog in the Dick and Jane textbook series
  • Spot, a cat in the cartoon series Hong Kong Phooey
  • Spot, a pet dog from the William Joyce series Rolie Polie Olie
  • Spot, a pet amoeba in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants season 11
  • Spot, a deity in a sketch by Canadian comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall
  • Spot, a pet dragon in the TV series The Munsters
  • Spot, Dairine's sentient computer in the Young Wizards series
  • Spot, a dog in the Isle of Dogs movie
  • Spot Helperman, the main protagonist in Disney animated series Teacher's Pet (TV series)
  • Spot Splatter Splash, a Lalaloopsy doll and character in the TV series

Entertainment

"The Spot", a branding used by several independent television stations owned by the E. W. Scripps Company, which include:

  • WXPX-TV in Bradenton, Florida
  • KASW in Phoenix, Arizona
  • KWBA-TV in Sierra Vista, Arizona
  • KCDO-TV in Sterling, Colorado
  • KIVI-DT2 in Nampa, Idaho
  • KMCI-TV in Lawrence, Kansas
  • KMCC in Laughlin, Nevada
  • KUPX-TV in Provo, Utah
  • WGNT in Portsmouth, Virginia
  • WACY-TV in Appleton, Wisconsin
  • Montana Television Network

Music

  • Spot (album), by the synth-pop band And One
  • "Spot!", a song by Zico featuring Jennie
  • Spot (music festival), a music festival held in Denmark
  • "Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly" or SPOTS, a name the Sex Pistols toured under in the United Kingdom

Biology and healthcare

  • Spot (fish), a fish (Leiostomus xanthurus)
  • SpoT, a bacterial protein that hydrolizes (p)ppGpp
  • Another term for a pimple

Brands and enterprises

  • SPoT Coffee, a coffee chain
  • Spotify (NYSE: SPOT), Swedish media company
  • Spot, a mascot for 7 Up soft drinks

Technology

  • SPOT (satellite) (Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre), an Earth-observing satellite family
  • Single Point of Truth or SPOT, a principle aimed at reducing duplication in software engineering
  • Smart Personal Objects Technology or SPOT, a Microsoft initiative
  • SPOT Satellite Messenger, a GPS tracking device
  • Spot, a four-legged canine-inspired robot made by Boston Dynamics
  • Spot, a 3D test model of a cow

Other meanings

  • USS Spot, an American World War II submarine later sold to Chile and renamed
  • Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned wrestling move or series of moves
  • SPOT (TSA program), or "Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques", an airport security technique
  • Spotlight, called spot for short
  • Spot, American slang for a music venue or club
  • Spot, old Australian and New Zealand slang for one hundred dollars
  • Spots (cannabis), a method of smoking cannabis, often called hotknifing in the United States

See also

  • Spotz (disambiguation)