Spike

**Spike** could mean:
- Nail, especially one more than 100mm (4 inches) long
- Rail spikes used to secure railroad rails to the wooden ties
- Spiked shoes worn by athletes, which provide more traction (similar to cleats)
- An adolescent male deer or male elk
- The Spike is a widely used nickname for the Spire of Dublin, a massive needle-like structure erected in Dublin in 2003
- Spike TV, a cable network that caters to a young male demographic (originally known as TNN, The National Network, or The Nashville Network)
- Spike missile, an Israel-developed anti-tank guided missile
- Spike bayonet, chiefly used on early muskets
- Voltage spike, or electrical surge
- The action potential which transmits signals along a nerve axon is often called a spike
- Spike is a botanical term for an unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence with sessile flowers arranged along the axis
- Spike (company), a video game company

**Media** with Spike in the title include:
- _The Spike (Borchgrave/Moss)_, a 1980 novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave, former editor of _The Washington Times_
- Spike of Bensonhurst, a 1988 movie directed by Paul Morrisey
- _Spike (Elvis Costello album)_, a 1989 album by Elvis Costello
- _The Spike (1997)_, a 1997 book by Damien Broderick
- _Spike (Puffy AmiYumi album)_, a 2001 album by Puffy AmiYumi

A number of **famous people** are named Spike, including:
- Spike, a newcomer Romanian rapper promoted by Parazitii
- Spike Lee, a filmmaker
- Spike Jonze, a filmmaker
- Spike Jones, a satirist
- Spike Milligan, a satirist
- Spike Robinson, a jazz musician
- Spike Slawson, a punk vocalist and bassist of the Swinging Utters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
- Matt Hyson (aka Spike Dudley), former professional wrestler
- Spike (porn star), a gay pornography actor
- Spike Feresten, television writer and talk show host
- Spike Xavier, Lead Singer of Nu-Metal band Corporate Avenger
- Spike, a Welsh musician, co-founder of Z Block Records, Reptile Ranch and Weekend
- Spike O'Donnell, famous Irish/American gangster from Chicago
A number of **fictional characters** have been named Spike, including:
- Spike, a main playable character in the _Ape Escape_ video game series
- Spike Spiegel, from the Japanese anime _Cowboy Bebop_
- Spike (Buffyverse), a vampire
- Spike, Fonzie's cousin in _Happy Days_
- Spike Fumo, in _Spike of Bensonhurst_
- Christine "Spike" Nelson, in the _Degrassi_ series
- Spike Thomson, in _Press Gang_
- Spike, a member of the Screws Gang in _Medabots_
- Spike, a dragon character from _My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic_
- Spike Lester, a character on the soap opera Passions
- The Spike (Marvel Comics), a member of the X-Statix
- Spike Freeman, another character in Marvel Comics' X-Statix/X-Force
- Spike (The Land Before Time), a young stegosaurus in _The Land Before Time_ film series
- "Spike" Stoker, a supporting character from Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next books
- Joshua "Spike" Cohen, a Jew from Tom Robbins' novel _Skinny Legs and All_
- Spike, a character originating in _Super Mario Bros. 3_ who launches spiked mace balls at the player
- Spike, the boss of the Midday Gardens world in the _Spyro: Year of the Dragon_ video game
- Spike, a character in the DC Comics comic book _Sugar and Spike_
- Spike Lavery, a character on All My Children, he the son Kendall and Ryan
- Father Spike, a high-church parish priest who is mentioned in C.S. Lewis' book _The Screwtape Letters_
- Spike, Roger Wilco's alien pet in _Space Quest V: The Next Mutation_
- Spike, a porcupine from the movie _Over the Hedge_
- Spike Witwicky, a character from the _Transformers_ TV cartoon series and comic books
- Spike (NX Files), a fictional character in an action-adventure web-show called NX Files
- Michelangelo 'Spike' Scarlatti, a fictional character in the Canadian TV series Flashpoint

A number of **cartoon dogs** have been named Spike:
- Spike (Ace Ventura), Ace Ventura's dog in the motion picture Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
- Spike (Goofy Movie)
- Spike (Peanuts), Snoopy's brother in _Peanuts_
- Spike (Tom and Jerry), Tom's and the other cats' nemesis in the cartoon series _Tom and Jerry_
- Spike the Bulldog and Chester the Terrier, in the Warner Bros. _Looney Tunes_ and _Merrie Melodies_ series of cartoons
- Spike, the family pet in _Rugrats_
- Spike, Heathcliff's nemesis in the comic strip and animated series _Heathcliff_
- Spike, Droopy's nemesis in Tex Avery's _Droopy Dog_ theatrical cartoon series

As a **place name**, Spike may refer to:
- Spike is the former name of a village in Derbyshire now known as Poolsbrook

In **sports**, Spike may refer to:
- A spike is an offensive attack in volleyball
- Spiking in American football is to throw the ball forcefully and intentionally into the ground
- In Track and Field and cross country running, **spiking** an opponent (or sometimes, inadvertently, a team mate) is to kick them with the metal spikes in the bottom of the runner's shoe