# Spike > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Spike > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Spike.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike > Source revision: 1355746897 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Spike**, **spikes**, or **spiking** may refer to: ## Arts, entertainment, and media For people in arts and media, see [People](#People). For fictional characters called Spike, see [Spike (character)](/source/Spike_(character)). ### Books - [*The Spike* (novel)](/source/The_Spike_(novel)), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave - [*The Spike* (Broderick book)](/source/The_Spike_(Broderick_book)), a nonfiction book by Damien Broderick - *The Spike*, a starship in Peter F. Hamilton's *[The Evolutionary Void](/source/The_Evolutionary_Void)* ### Comics - [*Spike* (DC Thomson)](/source/Spike_(DC_Thomson)) a British comics anthology published by DC Thomson - [*Spike* (IDW Publishing)](/source/Spike_(IDW_Publishing)), an American comic book series featuring the *Buffy the Vampire Slayer* character ### Film and television - [*Spike* (2008 film)](/source/Spike_(2008_film)), directed by Robert Beaucage - [Spike (dog actor)](/source/Spike_(dog_actor)) - [Spike (TV channel)](/source/Spike_(TV_channel)), a former name of the American cable network Paramount Network - [5Spike](/source/5Spike), a former localized British version of the American channel - [Spike (Australian TV channel)](/source/Spike_(Australian_TV_channel)), a localized version of the American channel - [Spike (Dutch TV channel)](/source/Spike_(Dutch_TV_channel)), a localized version of the American channel - "Spike!", a segment of the 2017 Thai TV series *[Project S: The Series](/source/Project_S:_The_Series)* ### Music - [*Spike* (Agata album)](/source/Spike_(Agata_album)), 2004 - [*Spike* (Puffy AmiYumi album)](/source/Spike_(Puffy_AmiYumi_album)), 2001 - [*Spike* (Elvis Costello album)](/source/Spike_(Elvis_Costello_album)), 1989 - [Spike (music)](/source/Spike_(music)), a part of certain stringed instruments - "Spike", a song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from the album *[Southern Accents](/source/Southern_Accents)* - "Spike", a song by The Network from the album *[Money Money 2020](/source/Money_Money_2020)* - "Spikes", a song by Death Grips from the album *[Bottomless Pit](/source/Bottomless_Pit_(album))* ### Periodicals - *[Spike Art Magazine](/source/Spike_Art_Magazine)*, an art magazine based in Berlin and Vienna est. 2004 - *[Spike Magazine](/source/Spike_Magazine)*, an internet cultural journal which began in 1996 ### Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media - [Spike (character)](/source/Spike_(character)), a list of fictional characters named Spike - [Spike (company)](/source/Spike_(company)), a video game company - [Spike (journalism)](/source/Spike_(journalism)), to decide not to publish or publicize a story - [Spike (stagecraft)](/source/Spike_(stagecraft)), markings on a stage to show the correct positioning of objects and actors - [*Spike* (video game)](/source/Spike_(video_game)), a 1983 platform game for the Vectrex video game system ## Biology and medicine - [Spike (botany)](/source/Spike_(botany)), a kind of inflorescence in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis - [Spike (neuroscience)](/source/Spike_(neuroscience)), or action potential - [SPIKES](/source/SPIKES), a clinical protocol used to break bad news to patients - [Spike protein](/source/Spike_protein), a structure projecting from the surface of an enveloped virus, which binds to host cells - [Spine (zoology)](/source/Spine_(zoology)), a hard, needle-like anatomical structure ## People ### Names - [Spike (nickname)](/source/Spike_(nickname)), a list of people - [Spike (surname)](/source/Spike_(surname)), a list of people - [Spikes (surname)](/source/Spikes_(surname)), a list of people ### People with the name or stage name #### In film - [Spike Jonze](/source/Spike_Jonze), an American filmmaker - [Spike Lee](/source/Spike_Lee), an American filmmaker #### In music - [Spike (musician)](/source/Spike_(musician)), singer of The Quireboys - [Spike (Welsh guitarist)](/source/Spike_(Welsh_guitarist)), stage name of Mike Williams - Spike, stage name of Frans van Zoest, guitar player of rock band [Di-rect](/source/Di-rect) - [Spike Jones](/source/Spike_Jones), American bandleader and humorist - [Spike Slawson](/source/Spike_Slawson), American punk vocalist and bassist of the Swinging Utters and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Spike Xavier, lead singer of nu metal band [Corporate Avenger](/source/Corporate_Avenger) #### In professional wrestling - [Spike Dudley](/source/Spike_Dudley), the ring name of American professional wrestler Matthew Jonathan Hyson (born 1970) - [Moondog Spike](/source/Moondog_Spike), the ring name of American professional wrestler Bill Smithson - [Spike Huber](/source/Spike_Huber), a professional wrestler from the United States Wrestling Association - Spike, a professional wrestler, half of the [Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling](/source/Gorgeous_Ladies_of_Wrestling) tag team The Heavy Metal Sisters ## Sport For people in sport, see [People](#People). - [Spike (gridiron football)](/source/Spike_(gridiron_football)), a play in American football - [Spike (volleyball)](/source/Spike_(volleyball)), a form of volleyball attack - [Spikes (mascot)](/source/Spikes_(mascot)), the mascot of the Minor League AAA Rochester Red Wings - [State College Spikes](/source/State_College_Spikes), a baseball team that plays in the MLB Draft League - [Track spikes](/source/Track_spikes), lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate, in order to maximize traction ## Technology ### Computing - [Spike (application)](/source/Spike_(application)), an email app which displays email in a chat-like format - [Spike (database)](/source/Spike_(database)), a biological database - [Spiking (fintech)](/source/Spiking_(fintech)), a social trading platform - [Spike (software development)](/source/Spike_(software_development)), a small task done to reduce uncertainty about a larger task - [SPIKE algorithm](/source/SPIKE_algorithm), a mathematical parallel algorithm for solving banded systems of linear equations - Spike, a [command in Microsoft Word](/source/Microsoft_Word#Spike) ### Mechanical devices - [Cleat (shoe)](/source/Cleat_(shoe)), a protrusion on the sole of a shoe to provide traction - [Track spikes](/source/Track_spikes), lightweight shoes with spikes screwed into their bottom, or spike plate - [Nail (fastener)](/source/Nail_(fastener)), or spike, especially one over ten inches (25 cm) long - [Rail spike](/source/Rail_spike), used to construct railroad tracks - [Screw spike](/source/Screw_spike), used to construct railroad tracks - [Spike strip](/source/Spike_strip), a device used to impede or stop the movement of wheeled vehicles - [Spindle (stationery)](/source/Spindle_(stationery)), an upright spike used to hold papers ### Other uses in technology - [Spike (missile)](/source/Spike_(missile)) an Israeli fourth generation anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) - [NAVAIR Spike](/source/NAVAIR_Spike) - [Voltage spike](/source/Voltage_spike), also called an electrical surge, an electronic glitch - Spiking a gun, a method of rendering a cannon temporarily inoperable by driving a metal spike into the [touch hole](/source/Touch_hole) ## Other uses - Spike, to add [alcohol](/source/Alcohol_(drug)) or another recreational drug to a typically non-alcoholic drink or foodstuff - [Mickey Finn (drugs)](/source/Mickey_Finn_(drugs)), a drink laced with an incapacitating drug - Spike, a colloquial name for a [workhouse](/source/Workhouse) - [Spike, Michigan](/source/Spike,_Michigan), a former settlement - [Needle spiking](/source/Needle_spiking), alleged surreptitious injection of drugs - [Tree spiking](/source/Tree_spiking), a radical environmentalist tactic - Virgin's Spike (Latin: *spīca virginis*), for the star [Spica](/source/Spica) - [Sungai Petani–Inner Kedah Expressway](/source/South_Kedah_Expressway), a proposed expressway in Kedah, Malaysia ## See also - [Golden Spike (disambiguation)](/source/Golden_Spike_(disambiguation)) - [Spike Island (disambiguation)](/source/Spike_Island_(disambiguation)) - [Spiked (disambiguation)](/source/Spiked_(disambiguation)) - [Spiker (disambiguation)](/source/Spiker_(disambiguation)) - [The Spike (disambiguation)](/source/The_Spike_(disambiguation)) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Spike](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.