Spider (disambiguation)

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A spider is a type of arthropod.

Spider or Spiders may also refer to:

Places

• Spider, Kentucky
• Spider crater, Western Australia
• "The Spider", another name for the Pantheon Fossae surface formation on Mercury

People

• Spider (nickname), a list of people
• Spider Robinson, science fiction writer

Art, entertainment, and media

Comics

• The Spiders (comic), a webcomic by Patrick S. Farley

Fictional entities

• Spider (British comics), a 1965–1969 British comic book character, later reprinted in Vulcan
• Spider (DC Comics), a character introduced in 1940
• Spider (Middle-earth), a creature in The Hobbit universe
• Spider (pulp fiction), a 1933–1943 pulp magazine hero
• Scarlet Spider, an alias used by a number of Marvel Comics characters
• Spider Girl, a DC Comics character
• Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist of the comic book Transmetropolitan
• Spider-Boy, an Amalgam Comics character combining Scarlet Spider and Super Boy
• Spider-Girl, a Marvel Comics character from an alternate future
• Spider-Man, a Marvel Comics character
• Spider-Woman, a number of Marvel Comics characters
• Spider-X, a Marvel Comics character often mistaken for Spider-Man
• Steel Spider, also known as Spider-Kid
• Spider, a character in Mega Man X: Command Mission
• Spider, a cartoon character in Osamu Tezuka's Star System
• Spiders, enemies in the sandbox game Minecraft
• Spiders, pejorative term for the Conjoiner faction in the Revelation Space universe
• Spiderlegs, a ghost in an episode of The Real Ghostbusters

Films

• Spider (2002 film), a 2002 psychological thriller by David Cronenberg
• Spider (2007 film), a 2007 short film by Nash Edgerton
• The Spider (1940 film), a British film by Maurice Elvey
• The Spider (1945 film), a 1945 film noir by Robert D. Webb
• The Spider, an alternate name for the horror film Earth vs. the Spider (1958)
• The Spiders (film), a 1919 mystery-action film by Fritz Lang
• The Spider, a 2012 film by Robert Sigl
• Spiders 3D, a 2013 film by Tibor Takács

Games

• Spider (solitaire), a card game
• Spiders (developer), a French video game developer
• Spiders, a 1981 arcade game
• Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor, a 2009 iPhone game
• Spider: The Video Game

Literature

• Spider (novel), by Patrick McGrath
• Al-Ankabut (“The Spider”), the twenty-ninth sura of the Qur'an

Music

Groups

• Spider (American band), a 1980s American rock band
• Spider (British band), UK rock band formed in 1976
• Spiders (British band), 2010s British indie band
• Spiders (Swedish band), 2010s Swedish rock band
• The Spiders (American band), a 1950s R&B group
• The Spiders, a 1960s American rock band, later known as Alice Cooper
• The Spiders (Japanese band), a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band

Albums

• Spiders (album), by Space

Songs

• "Spiders" (Moby song)
• "Spiders" (System of a Down song)
• "Spiders" (Destine song)
• "Spiders", a song by Editors on the album An End Has a Start
• "The Spider", a song by Kansas on the album Point of Know Return
• "Spider", a song by Oingo Boingo on the album Boingo
• "Spider", a single by Spitz
• "Spider", a song by They Might Be Giants on the album Apollo 18
• "Spider", a song by The Vapors on the album Magnets
• "Spiders (Kidsmoke)", a song by Wilco on the album A Ghost Is Born

Periodicals

• Spider (magazine), a children's literary magazine
• Spider (computer magazine), a monthly magazine published in Karachi, Pakistan

Television

• Spider! (TV series)
• "Spiders", an episode of the television series Teletubbies

Culinary

• Spider (utensil), a basket with a long handle
• Spider, a type of ice cream float (a beverage)
• Spider, a type of frying pan with legs

Land vehicles

• Alfa Romeo Spider, a sports car introduced in 1966
• Light Strike Vehicle (Singapore), also known as Spider New Generation, a light strike vehicle produced by ST Kinetics
• McLaren MP4-12C Spider, a convertible version of the McLaren MP4-12C supercar
• Roadster (automobile), a style of two-seater car known as a Spider

Mathematics

• The Thurston-Hubbard-Schleicher spider algorithm

Sport

• Cleveland Spiders, an 1887–1899 American baseball team
• Richmond Spiders, the sports teams of the University of Richmond
• San Francisco Spiders, a 1996 American hockey team
• Spider, a piece of snooker equipment

Technology

• Spider (polarimeter), an experiment to study the cosmic microwave background radiation
• AMD Spider, a computer platform
• Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction, an ultrashort pulse measurement technique
• SS-23 Spider, a ballistic missile
• Search Engine Spider commonly known as a Web crawler, an automated software agent that gathers pages from the World Wide Web
• Spider, the callsign of the Apollo 9 lunar module
• a bicycle component part:
  • crankset
  • cassette
  • disc brake rotor
• A support for the secondary mirror of a reflecting telescope
• A component of a loudspeaker
• SPIDER, a system for laparoscopic surgery
• A 45 RPM adapter for a phonograph record.
• Tubing spider a heavy duty gripping tool used in oil drilling for securing the drill pipe to the drill floor
• Lug wrench, an X-shaped lug wrench

Transport

• Spider map: a schematic diagram of bus services serving a particular locality, used by Transport for London
• Pipistrel Spider, a Slovenian ultralight trike aircraft design

Other uses

• 4th Guards Brigade "Spiders", a former Croatian army unit
• Spider angioma, a skin growth
• Spider, an alternate name for the SPDR brand of exchange-traded investment fund
• The Spiders, early stage name for professional wrestling tag-team The Headbangers
• The Spider, early stage name for professional wrestler Randy Savage

See also

• Spyder (disambiguation)