Spike

**Spike** could mean:
* Nail, especially one more than 100mm (4&nbsp;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