Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Books

* The Spike (novel), ''The Spike'' (novel), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave * The Spike (Broderick book), ''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), ''Spike'' (DC Thomson) a British comics anthology published by DC Thomson * Spike (IDW Publishing), ''Spike'' (IDW Publishing), an American comic book series featuring the ''Buffy the Vampire Slayer'' character

Film and television

* Spike (2008 film), ''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), ''Spike'' (Agata album), 2004 * Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album), ''Spike'' (Puffy AmiYumi album), 2001 * Spike (Elvis Costello album), ''Spike'' (Elvis Costello album), 1989 * Spike (music), a part of certain stringed instruments * "Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album ''Bottomless Pit (album), Bottomless Pit'' * "Spike", a song from The Network album ''Money Money 2020''

Periodicals

* ''Spike Art Magazine'', 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), ''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), a list of people

People with the name or stage name

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 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

Technology

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 Microsoft Word#Spike, 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) * NAVAIR Spike * 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 (drug), 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 *South Kedah Expressway, Sungai Petani–Inner Kedah Expressway, a proposed expressway in Kedah, Malaysia