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
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), a chapter 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
- Spider map, a schematic diagram of bus services serving a particular locality, used by Transport for London
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
See also
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