Spider (disambiguation)

A spider is a type of arthropod.

Spider, Spiders or The Spider may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

• Spider (DC Comics), a character introduced in 1940
• Spider (pulp fiction character), the hero of a 1933–1943 pulp magazine (see Periodicals subsection below)
• 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
• 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), by Robert G. Vignola
• The Spiders (film), 1919, by Fritz Lang
• The Spider (1931 film), by MacKenna and Menzies
• The Spider (1940 film), by Maurice Elvey
• The Spider (1945 film), by Robert D. Webb
• Spiders (film), a 2000 American science fiction horror film
• Spider (1992 film), by Vasily Mass
• Spider (2002 film), by David Cronenberg
• Spider (2007 film), by Nash Edgerton
• Spiders 3D, 2013, by Tibor Takács
• The Spider, or Earth vs. the Spider
• The Spider, 2012 film by Robert Sigl
• Spider (2019 film), Chile

Gaming

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

Literature

• "The Spider" (Danish: Edderkoppen), a 1901 short story by Carl Ewald, collected in his 1907 book of short stories The Spider, and Other Tales
• The Spider, a 1910 novel by Fergus Hume
• "Spider", a 1929 short story by Eden Phillpotts, from his short story anthology The Torch and Other Tales (1929)
• "Spider", a 2000 short story by John Pelan
• Spider (novel), a 1990 novel by Patrick McGrath
• Al-Ankabut ("The Spider"), the 29th sura of the Qur'an

Music

Groups

• Spider (American band), a 1980s American rock band
• Spider (British band), a UK rock band formed in 1976
• Spiders (British band), a 2010s British indie band
• Spiders (Swedish band), a 2010s Swedish rock band
• The Spiders (American band), a 1950s R&B group
• The Spiders (American rock band), a 1960s American rock band, later known as Alice Cooper
• The Spiders (Japanese band), a 1960s Japanese Group Sounds band

Albums

• Spiders (album), a 1996 album by Space
• Spiderr, a 2022 album by Bladee

Songs

• "Spider", a song by Bo Burnham from the 2022 The Inside Outtakes
• "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
• "Spider" (Gims song), 2024

Periodicals

• Spider (computer magazine), a monthly magazine in Karachi, Pakistan
• Spider (magazine), a children's literary magazine
• The Spider (magazine), a pulp magazine published from 1933 to 1943

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

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

Military

• 4th Guards Brigade "Spiders", a former Croatian army unit
• Light Strike Vehicle (Singapore), or Spider New Generation
• SS-23 Spider, a ballistic missile

People

• Spider (nickname), a list of people
• John Koerner (born 1938), American blues/folk musician known as Spider
• Spider Robinson (born 1948), American-Canadian science-fiction writer
• Ben Spider (born 1970), Franco-Swiss artist.
• Spider (musician) (born 1999/2000), Irish musician
• The Spider, ring name for professional wrestler Randy Savage (1952–2011)
• The Spider, professional wrestler from United States Wrestling Association

Places

• Spider, Kentucky, U.S.
• Spider crater, Western Australia
• The Spider (Colorado), a mountain in the Gore Range
• "The Spider", another name for the Pantheon Fossae surface formation on Mercury
• ¨Las Arañas, lit. "The Spiders":

• Las Arañas, Santiago Metropolitan Region
• Las Arañas, O'Higgins Region

Science and 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
• Web spider, another name for a web crawler — an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web for purposes of web indexing — typically employed by search engines
• 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
• Spider arm, a weak spot of front-loading washing machines

Sports

• 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, an early ring name for professional wrestling tag-team The Headbangers
• The Spiders, nickname of Queen's Park F.C., Glasgow

Transportation

• Spider (locomotive), a 1890 locomotive on the Marrawah Tramway, Tasmania, Australia
• Spider, part of a bicycle crankset
• Various Alfa Romeo models:
  • Alfa Romeo Spider, a roadster version of the Alfa Romeo Brera produced from 2006 to 2010
  • Alfa Romeo Spider, a roadster sports car produced from 1993 to 2004
  • Alfa Romeo Spider, a sports car introduced in 1966
• Aston Martin Valkyrie Spider, a convertible version of the Aston Martin Valkyrie sports car
• Fiat 124 Sport Spider, also known as the Pininfarina 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 sports car
• Pipistrel Spider, a Slovenian ultralight trike aircraft design
• Renault Sport Spider, a sports car produced 1996–1999

Other uses

• Spider (portal) (Strathclyde Personal Interactive Development and Educational Resource)
• SPDR, pronounced "spider", a family of investment funds
• 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)
• Spider-Man, a Marvel Comics superhero character
• Spider-Man (disambiguation)

See also

• All pages with titles containing spider
• SPDR (disambiguation)
• Spyder (disambiguation)
• Arana (disambiguation), La Araña (disambiguation), and Las Arañas (disambiguation), terms referring to Spanish translations of spiders