Spider (disambiguation)

Spider or Spiders or The Spider may also refer to:

A spider is a type of arthropod.

Places

• Spider, Kentucky
• Spider crater, Western Australia
• "The Spider", another name for the Pantheon Fossae surface formation on Mercury

People with the name

• Spider (nickname), a list of people
• The Spider, early ring name for professional wrestler Randy Savage
• The Spider, a professional wrestler from United States Wrestling Association

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Spider (DC Comics), a character introduced in 1940
• Spider (pulp fiction), 1933–1943 pulp magazine hero
• 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
• Spiders, enemies in the sandbox game Minecraft
• 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), 1916 American drama directed by Robert G. Vignola
• The Spiders (film), 1919 mystery-action film by Fritz Lang
• The Spider (1931 film), 1931 American mystery film directed by Kenneth MacKenna and William Cameron Menzies
• The Spider (1940 film), 1940 British film by Maurice Elvey
• The Spider (1945 film), 1945 film noir by Robert D. Webb
• Spiders (2000 film), 2000 science-fiction horror movie by Gary Jones
• Spider (2002 film), 2002 psychological thriller by David Cronenberg
• Spider (2007 film), 2007 short film by Nash Edgerton
• Spiders 3D, 2013 film by Tibor Takács
• The Spider, alternate name for the 1958 horror film Earth vs. the Spider
• The Spider, 2012 film by Robert Sigl
• Spider (2019 film), a Chilean film
• Spiders 2: Breeding Grounds

Games

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

Literature

• Spider Robinson, science-fiction writer
• Spider (novel), 1990 novel by Patrick McGrath
• Al-Ankabut (“The Spider”), the 29th sura of the Qur'an

Music

• "Spider" John Koerner, American blues/folk musician

Groups

• Spider (American band), 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), 1950s R&B group
• The Spiders (American rock band), 1960s American rock band, later known as Alice Cooper
• The Spiders (Japanese band), 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band

Albums

• Spiders (album), 1996 album by Space

Songs

• "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

Periodicals

• Spider (computer magazine), a monthly magazine in Karachi, Pakistan
• Spider (magazine), a children's literary magazine

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Spider (Bourgeois), a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois
• Spider! (TV series), 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

Culinary

• 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)

Military

• 4th Guards Brigade "Spiders", a former Croatian army unit
• Light Strike Vehicle (Singapore), also known as Spider New Generation, a light strike vehicle produced by ST Kinetics
• SS-23 Spider, a ballistic missile

Sport

• 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, early ring name for professional wrestling tag-team The Headbangers

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
• Search Engine Spider, commonly known as a Web crawler
• 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

Transport

• Spider (locomotive), 1890 locomotive on the Marrawah Tramway, Tasmania, Australia
• Spider, part of a bicycle crankset
• Alfa Romeo Spider (939), launched in 2006
• Alfa Romeo Spider (916), launched in 1995
• Alfa Romeo Spider, a sports car introduced in 1966
• Fiat 124 Sport 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 supercar
• Pipistrel Spider, a Slovenian ultralight trike aircraft design
• Renault Sport Spider, a sports car produced 1996–1999
• Roadster (automobile), type of car

Other uses

• Spider (portal), virtual learning environment used by the University of Strathclyde
• Spider, an alternate name for the SPDR brand of exchange-traded investment fund

See also

• All pages with titles containing spider
• SPDR (disambiguation)
• Spyder (disambiguation)