Spike

Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

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), a 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
 * "Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit
 * "Spike", a song from The Network album Money Money 2020

Periodicals

 * Spike Art Quarterly 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

Names

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

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 former 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

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)
 * 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