Spike

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
• "Spike", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the album Southern Accents
• "Spike", a song by The Network from the album Money Money 2020
• "Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album Bottomless Pit

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

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

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 (simulator), the gold standard of the RISC-V architecture
• 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)
• NAVAIR Spike
• Voltage spike, also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch
• Spiking a gun, temporarily disabling a gun by driving a spike into its touch hole