# Spar

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**Spar** commonly refers to:

- [Spar (sailing)](/source/Spar_(sailing)), part of a sailing vessel
- [Spar (aeronautics)](/source/Spar_(aeronautics)), part of an aircraft
- [Sparring](/source/Sparring), mock combat

It may also refer to:

## In business

- [Spar (retailer)](/source/Spar_(retailer)), a multinational retailer
- [Spar Aerospace](/source/Spar_Aerospace), a former Canadian aerospace company
- Spar grocery stores, owned by [Pisiffik](/source/Pisiffik), Greenland
- NASDAQ symbol for [Spartan Motors](/source/Spartan_Motors), US

## Vessels

- [USCGC *Spar* (WLB-403)](/source/USCGC_Spar_(WLB-403)), a former United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender
- [USCGC *Spar* (WLB-206)](/source/USCGC_Spar_(WLB-206)), a United States Coast Guard seagoing buoy tender

## SPAR or SPARS

- [SPARS](/source/SPARS), the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve
- Society of Professional Audio Recording Services
- [Special Program of Assisted Reproduction](/source/Special_Program_of_Assisted_Reproduction)

## Other uses

- [Spar (mineralogy)](/source/Spar_(mineralogy)), a crystal with readily discernible faces
- [Spar (platform)](/source/Spar_(platform)), a type of floating oil platform
- [Spar (tree)](/source/Spar_(tree)), part of a cable logging setup
- [Spar Island (Rhode Island)](/source/Spar_Island_(Rhode_Island)), a sandbar
- ["Spar" (short story)](/source/Spar_(short_story)), by Kij Johnson
- [Debora Spar](/source/Debora_Spar)

## See also

- [SPARS code](/source/SPARS_code), a code on some compact disc recordings

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