Spider (disambiguation)

A spider is a type of arthropod.

Spider, Spiders or The Spider may also refer to:

Fictional entities

 * Spider (DC Comics), a character introduced in 1940
 * The Spider (magazine), a 1933–1943 pulp magazine
 * Spider (pulp fiction character), the hero of the 1933–1943 pulp magazine
 * Phantom Troupe, also known as the Spiders, characters in the Hunter × Hunter manga series
 * Spider, a character in Mega Man X: Command Mission
 * Spider, a cartoon character in Osamu Tezuka's Star System
 * Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist of the comic book Transmetropolitan
 * Spiderlegs, a ghost in an episode of The Real Ghostbusters
 * The Spider (British comics), a 1965–1969 British comic book character, later reprinted in Vulcan
 * The Spider, the eunuch Varys in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and its TV adaptation, Game of Thrones

Films

 * The Spider (1916 film), by Robert G. Vignola
 * The Spiders (film), 1919, by Fritz Lang
 * The Spider (1931 film), by MacKenna and Menzies
 * The Spider (1940 film), by Maurice Elvey
 * The Spider (1945 film), by Robert D. Webb
 * Spiders (film), a 2000 American science fiction horror film
 * Spider (1992 film), by Vasily Mass
 * Spider (2002 film), by David Cronenberg
 * Spider (2007 film), by Nash Edgerton
 * Spiders 3D, 2013, by Tibor Takács
 * The Spider, or Earth vs. the Spider
 * The Spider, 2012 film by Robert Sigl
 * Spider (2019 film), Chile

Gaming

 * Spider (solitaire), a card game
 * Spiders (company), a French video game developer
 * Spiders (video game), a 1981 arcade game
 * Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor, a 2009 iPhone game
 * Spider: The Video Game, a 1997 video game developed by Boss Game Studios

Literature

 * "The Spider" (Edderkoppen), a 1901 short story by Carl Ewald, collected in his 1907 book of short stories The Spider, and Other Tales
 * The Spider, a 1910 novel by Fergus Hume
 * "Spider", a 1929 short story by Eden Phillpotts, from his short story anthology The Torch and Other Tales (1929)
 * "Spider", a 2000 short story by John Pelan
 * Spider (novel), a 1990 novel by Patrick McGrath
 * Al-Ankabut ("The Spider"), the 29th sura of the Qur'an

Groups

 * Spider (American band), a 1980s American rock band
 * Spider (British band), a UK rock band formed in 1976
 * Spiders (British band), a 2010s British indie band
 * Spiders (Swedish band), a 2010s Swedish rock band
 * The Spiders (American band), a 1950s R&B group
 * The Spiders (American rock band), a 1960s American rock band, later known as Alice Cooper
 * The Spiders (Japanese band), a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band

Albums

 * Spiders (album), a 1996 album by Space

Songs

 * "Spider", a song by Bo Burnham from the 2022 The Inside Outtakes
 * "Spider", a song by Oingo Boingo on the 1994 album Boingo
 * "Spider", a single by Spitz
 * "Spider", a song by The Vapors on the 1981 album Magnets
 * "Spider", a song by They Might Be Giants on the 1992 album Apollo 18
 * "Spiders" (Destine song), 2010
 * "Spiders" (Moby song), 2005
 * "Spiders" (System of a Down song), 1999
 * "Spiders", a song by Slipknot on the 2019 album We Are Not Your Kind
 * "Spiders", a song by Editors on the 2007 album An End Has a Start
 * "Spiders (Kidsmoke)", a song by Wilco on the 2004 album A Ghost Is Born
 * "The Spider", a song by Kansas on the 1997 album Point of Know Return
 * "The Spider", a song by Scottish musician Momus on the 2015 album Turpsycore

Periodicals

 * Spider (computer magazine), a monthly magazine in Karachi, Pakistan
 * Spider (magazine), a children's literary magazine
 * The Spider (magazine), a pulp magazine published from 1933 to 1943

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

 * Spider (Bourgeois), a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois
 * Spider! (TV series), a 1991 musical children's television mini series
 * The Spiders (comic), a webcomic by Patrick S. Farley
 * "Spider", a 2005 episode of the animated television series 12 oz. Mouse

Military

 * 4th Guards Brigade "Spiders", a former Croatian army unit
 * Light Strike Vehicle (Singapore), or Spider New Generation
 * SS-23 Spider, a ballistic missile

People

 * Spider (nickname), a list of people
 * John Koerner (born 1938), American blues/folk musician known as Spider
 * Spider Robinson (born 1948), American-Canadian science-fiction writer
 * Ben Spider (born 1970), Franco-Swiss artist.
 * Spider (musician) (born 1999/2000), Irish musician
 * The Spider, ring name for professional wrestler Randy Savage (1952–2011)
 * The Spider, professional wrestler from United States Wrestling Association

Places

 * Spider, Kentucky, U.S.
 * Spider crater, Western Australia
 * The Spider (Colorado), a mountain in the Gore Range
 * "The Spider", another name for the Pantheon Fossae surface formation on Mercury
 * ¨Las Arañas, lit. "The Spiders":
 * Las Arañas, Santiago Metropolitan Region
 * Las Arañas, O'Higgins Region

Science and technology

 * Spider (polarimeter), an experiment to study the cosmic microwave background radiation
 * Spider, the callsign of the Apollo 9 lunar module
 * Spider, a support for the secondary mirror of a reflecting telescope
 * Spider, a component of a loudspeaker
 * AMD Spider, a computer platform
 * 45 rpm adapter, called the spider, for a phonograph record
 * Web spider, another name for a web crawler—an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web for purposes of web indexing—typically employed by search engines
 * Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction, an ultrashort pulse measurement technique
 * Spider wrench, a x-shaped Lug wrench
 * Tubing spider, a heavy duty gripping tool used in oil drilling for securing the drill pipe to the drill floor
 * SPIDER, a prototype negative ion source for the ITER Heating Neutral Beams
 * Spider arm, a weak spot of front-loading washing machines

Sports

 * Spider, a piece of snooker equipment
 * Cleveland Spiders, an 1887–1899 American baseball team
 * Richmond Spiders, the sports teams of the University of Richmond
 * San Francisco Spiders, a 1996 American hockey team
 * The Spiders, an early ring name for professional wrestling tag-team The Headbangers
 * The Spiders, nickname of Queen's Park F.C., Glasgow

Transportation

 * Spider (locomotive), a 1890 locomotive on the Marrawah Tramway, Tasmania, Australia
 * Spider, part of a bicycle crankset
 * Various Alfa Romeo models:
 * Alfa Roemo Spider, a roadster version of the Alfa Romeo Brera produced from 2006 to 2010
 * Alfa Romeo Spider, a roadster sports car produced from 1993 to 2004
 * Alfa Romeo Spider, a sports car introduced in 1966
 * Aston Martin Valkyrie Spider, a convertible version of the Aston Martin Valkyrie sports car
 * Fiat 124 Sport Spider, also known as the Pininfarina Spider, a sports car produced 1966–1980
 * Fiat 124 Spider (2016), a sports car introduced in 2016
 * McLaren MP4-12C Spider, a convertible version of the McLaren MP4-12C sports car
 * Pipistrel Spider, a Slovenian ultralight trike aircraft design
 * Renault Sport Spider, a sports car produced 1996–1999

Other uses

 * Spider (portal) (Strathclyde Personal Interactive Development and Educational Resource)
 * SPDR, pronounced "spider", a family of investment funds
 * Spider (utensil), a basket with a long handle
 * Spider, a type of frying pan with legs
 * Spider, a type of ice cream float (a beverage)