Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Books

* ''The Spike'' (novel), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave * ''The Spike'' (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), a dog actor * Spike (TV channel), a former name of the American cable network Paramount Network **

5Spike 5Spike was a British free-to-air television channel owned by ViacomCBS Networks UK & Australia. Launching on 15 April 2015 on Freeview as just Spike, it was a localised version of the American cable channel Spike (now Paramount Network), and be ...

, a former localized British version of the American channel ** Spike (Australian TV channel), a localized version of the American channel **

Spike (Dutch TV channel) Paramount Network is a Dutch free-to-cable television channel in the Netherlands, based on the American rebranded Paramount Network. The television channels launched as Spike on 1 October 2015. It was the third Spike channel next to the US and U ...

, 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) was a Japanese video game developer and video game publisher, publisher. Most of the staff were part of Human Entertainment. Human's ''Fire Pro Wrestling'' series was acquired by Spike after Human ceased operations. In April 2012, the company me ...

, 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

People

Names

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

Spikes (surname) Spikes is the surname of: * Brandon Spikes (born 1987), American National Football League (NFL) linebacker * Cameron Spikes (born 1976), American former NFL football guard * Charlie Spikes (born 1951), Major League Baseball player * Irving Spikes ...

, a list of people

People with the name or stage name

In film

* Spike Jonze, an American filmmaker *

Spike Lee Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut ...

, 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 Spike Slawson is an American punk rock musician, a member of Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Swingin' Utters, Filthy Thievin' Bastards, Re-Volts, and Uke-Hunt. Early life Having grown up in Pittsburgh, Slawson worked in the mail order depart ...

, 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 Rochester Red Wings are a Minor League Baseball team of the International League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Washington Nationals. They are located in Rochester, New York, and play their home games at Innovative Field, located in downto ...

, the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings * State College Spikes, a minor league baseball team that plays in the New York – Penn League * Track spikes, lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction

Technology

Computing

Spike (application) Spike is an email application for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android and the web, which enables users to view email in a chat-like, conversational format, with additional features built-in. History Founded in 2013 by Erez Pilosof and Dvir Ben-Aroya, S ...

, an email app which displays email in a chat-like format * Spike (database), a biological database *

Spiking (fintech) Spiking is a social trading platform providing financial information about 10 stock exchange markets in Asia and Australia. By processing the latest disclosures published on the markets, the platform allows investors to track stocks for moves made ...

, 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

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 * Tree spiking, a radical environmentalist tactic