Spur (disambiguation)

A spur is a metal instrument fastened to the heel of a horse rider.

Spur or Spurs may also refer to:

Medicine

 * Bone spurs, a skeletal disorder forming small bony outgrowth along joint margins
 * Heel spur, a thin spike of calcification in the human foot

Organizations

 * San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, a non-profit research, education, and advocacy organization
 * Gruppe SPUR, a German artistic collaboration, and their journal of the same name
 * Spur Steak Ranches, a chain of steakhouses in South Africa
 * Spur gas, North American gas stations operated by Murphy Oil

Routes

 * Spur line, a short railway (railroad) branching from a main line
 * Spur route, a short road branching from longer, more important route
 * Spur trail, a shorter trail which branches from a longer route

Science

 * Spur (botany), an elongated appendage of certain sepals
 * Spur (geology), a ridge, often one that is subordinate to a larger ridge
 * Interlocking spur, one of any number of ridges extending alternately from the opposite sides of the wall of a young, V-shaped valley
 * Spur (stem), a short flower- and fruit-bearing stem on some fruit trees
 * Spur (zoology), an outgrowth of bone covered in a sheath of horn
 * Spur (chemistry), a region of high concentration of reaction product

Sports

 * Witbank Spurs, an association football club from South Africa
 * Tottenham Hotspur F.C., a football team based in London, England
 * San Antonio Spurs, a National Basketball Association team based in San Antonio, Texas, US
 * Spurs Sports & Entertainment, the company that owns the San Antonio Spurs and other sports-related assets
 * Chancellor's Spurs, a traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the college football game between Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin

Other uses

 * Spur (architecture), the ornament carved on the angles of the bases of early columns
 * Spur (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse
 * Spur (lunar crater)
 * "Spurs" (short story), a short story by Tod Robbins that served as the basis of the film Freaks
 * Spur (topography), a mountain ridge projecting laterally from a main mountain or mountain range
 * Spur (typography), a small continuation of part of a printed letter, especially an uppercase G
 * Spur (vine), one-year-old wood of a grapevine that is pruned back to leave just one or two buds to be used for next year's crop of grapes
 * Spur, Texas, United States
 * Spur Award, an annual literary prize awarded by the Western Writers of America
 * Spur Gasoline Station, a historic building in Cynthiana, kentucky
 * Spur gear, a type of gear
 * SPURS National Honor Society, a collegiate sophomore honor-service society in the United States
 * Spurious tone or spur, a tone in an electronic circuit which interferes with a signal
 * The Spur, a collection of Arts and Crafts bungalows in Clifton, Christchurch, New Zealand
 * The Spurs, a Canadian country music group 1999–2000
 * Truncated spur