# Spike

Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Books

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

### Film and television

* 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), 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 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), 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 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)
* 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
* Needle spiking, alleged surreptitious injection of drugs
* Tree spiking, a radical environmentalist tactic
* Virgin's Spike (Latin: spīca virginis), for the star Spica
* Sungai Petani–Inner Kedah Expressway, a proposed expressway in Kedah, Malaysia