Spot

Spot or SPOT may refer to:

Places

 * Spot, North Carolina, a community in the United States
 * 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

Fictional characters

 * Spot, a character in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated film The Good Dinosaur
 * Spot (chicken), in 101 Dalmatians: The Series
 * Spot (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

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