# Spider (disambiguation)

A spider is a type of arthropod.
Spider, Spiders or The Spider may also refer to:

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Fictional characters

* Spider (DC Comics), a character introduced in 1940
* Spider (pulp fiction character), the hero of a 1933–1943 pulp magazine (see Periodicals subsection below)
* Phantom Troupe, also known as the Spiders, characters in the Hunter × Hunter manga series
* Spider, a character in Mega Man X: Command Mission
* Spider, a cartoon character in Osamu Tezuka's Star System
* Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist of the comic book Transmetropolitan
* Spiderlegs, a ghost in an episode of The Real Ghostbusters
* The Spider (British comics), a 1965–1969 British comic book character, later reprinted in Vulcan
* The Spider, the eunuch Varys in George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire and its TV adaptation, Game of Thrones

### Films

* The Spider (1916 film), by Robert G. Vignola
* The Spiders (film), 1919, by Fritz Lang
* The Spider (1931 film), by MacKenna and Menzies
* The Spider (1940 film), by Maurice Elvey
* The Spider (1945 film), by Robert D. Webb
* Spiders (film), a 2000 American science fiction horror film
* Spider (1992 film), by Vasily Mass
* Spider (2002 film), by David Cronenberg
* Spider (2007 film), by Nash Edgerton
* Spiders 3D, 2013, by Tibor Takács
* The Spider, or Earth vs. the Spider
* The Spider, 2012 film by Robert Sigl
* Spider (2019 film), Chile
* The Spider (2022 film), Egypt

### Gaming

* Spider (solitaire), a card game
* Spiders (company), a French video game developer
* Spiders (video game), a 1981 arcade game
* Spider: The Secret of Bryce Manor, a 2009 iPhone game
* Spider: The Video Game, a 1997 video game developed by Boss Game Studios

### Literature

* "The Spider" (Danish: Edderkoppen), a 1901 short story by Carl Ewald, collected in his 1907 book of short stories The Spider, and Other Tales
* The Spider, a 1910 novel by Fergus Hume
* "Spider", a 1929 short story by Eden Phillpotts, from his short story anthology The Torch and Other Tales (1929)
* "Spider", a 2000 short story by John Pelan
* Spider (novel), a 1990 novel by Patrick McGrath
* Al-Ankabut ("The Spider"), the 29th sura of the Qur'an

### Music
#### Groups

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

#### Albums

* Spiders (album), a 1996 album by Space
* Spiderr, a 2022 album by Bladee

#### Songs

* "Spider", a song by Bo Burnham from the 2022 The Inside Outtakes
* "Spider", a song by Oingo Boingo on the 1994 album Boingo
* "Spider", a single by Spitz
* "Spider", a song by The Vapors on the 1981 album Magnets
* "Spider", a song by They Might Be Giants on the 1992 album Apollo 18
* "Spiders" (Destine song), 2010
* "Spiders" (Moby song), 2005
* "Spiders" (System of a Down song), 1999
* "Spiders", a song by Slipknot on the 2019 album We Are Not Your Kind
* "Spiders", a song by Editors on the 2007 album An End Has a Start
* "Spiders (Kidsmoke)", a song by Wilco on the 2004 album A Ghost Is Born
* "The Spider", a song by Kansas on the 1997 album Point of Know Return
* "The Spider", a song by Scottish musician Momus on the 2015 album Turpsycore
* "Spider" (Gims song), 2024

### Periodicals

* Spider (computer magazine), a monthly magazine in Karachi, Pakistan
* Spider (magazine), a children's literary magazine
* The Spider (magazine), a pulp magazine published from 1933 to 1943

### Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* Spider (Bourgeois), a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois
* Spider! (TV series), a 1991 musical children's television mini series
* The Spiders (comic), a webcomic by Patrick S. Farley
* "Spider", a 2005 episode of the animated television series 12 oz. Mouse

## Military

* 4th Guards Brigade "Spiders", a former Croatian army unit
* Light Strike Vehicle (Singapore), or Spider New Generation
* SS-23 Spider, a ballistic missile

## People

* Spider (nickname), a list of people
* John Koerner (born 1938), American blues/folk musician known as Spider
* Spider Robinson (born 1948), American-Canadian science-fiction writer
* Ben Spider (born 1970), Franco-Swiss artist.
* Spider (musician) (born 1999/2000), Irish musician
* The Spider, ring name for professional wrestler Randy Savage (1952–2011)
* The Spider, professional wrestler from United States Wrestling Association

## Places

* Spider, Kentucky, U.S.
* Spider crater, Western Australia
* The Spider (Colorado), a mountain in the Gore Range
* "The Spider", another name for the Pantheon Fossae surface formation on Mercury
* ¨Las Arañas, lit. "The Spiders":
   * Las Arañas, Santiago Metropolitan Region
   * Las Arañas, O'Higgins Region

## Science and technology

* Spider (polarimeter), an experiment to study the cosmic microwave background radiation
* Spider, the callsign of the Apollo 9 lunar module
* Spider, a support for the secondary mirror of a reflecting telescope
* Spider, a component of a loudspeaker
* AMD Spider, a computer platform
* 45 rpm adapter, called the spider, for a phonograph record
* Web spider, another name for a web crawler — an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web for purposes of web indexing — typically employed by search engines
* Spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction, an ultrashort pulse measurement technique
* Spider wrench, a x-shaped Lug wrench
* Tubing spider, a heavy duty gripping tool used in oil drilling for securing the drill pipe to the drill floor
* SPIDER, a prototype negative ion source for the ITER Heating Neutral Beams
* Spider arm, a weak spot of front-loading washing machines

## Sports

* Spider, a piece of snooker equipment
* 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
* The Spiders, an early ring name for professional wrestling tag-team The Headbangers
* The Spiders, nickname of Queen's Park F.C., Glasgow

## Transportation

* Spider (locomotive), a 1890 locomotive on the Marrawah Tramway, Tasmania, Australia
* Spider, part of a bicycle crankset
* Various Alfa Romeo models:
** Alfa Romeo Spider, a roadster version of the Alfa Romeo Brera produced from 2006 to 2010
** Alfa Romeo Spider, a roadster sports car produced from 1993 to 2004
** Alfa Romeo Spider, a sports car introduced in 1966
* Aston Martin Valkyrie Spider, a convertible version of the Aston Martin Valkyrie sports car
* Fiat 124 Sport Spider, also known as the Pininfarina Spider, a sports car produced 1966–1980
* Fiat 124 Spider (2016), a sports car introduced in 2016
* McLaren MP4-12C Spider, a convertible version of the McLaren MP4-12C sports car
* Pipistrel Spider, a Slovenian ultralight trike aircraft design
* Renault Sport Spider, a sports car produced 1996–1999

## Other uses

* Spider (portal) (Strathclyde Personal Interactive Development and Educational Resource)
* SPDR, pronounced "spider", a family of investment funds
* Spider (utensil), a basket with a long handle
* Spider, a type of frying pan with legs
* Spider, a type of ice cream float (a beverage)
* Spider-Man, a Marvel Comics superhero character
* Spider-Man (disambiguation)