Spider (disambiguation)
A spider is a type of arthropod.
Spider, Spiders or The Spider may also refer to:
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
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
Albums
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
Military
People
Places
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
Transportation
- Spider (locomotive), a 1890 locomotive on the Marrawah Tramway, Tasmania, Australia
- Spider, part of a bicycle crankset
- Various Alfa Romeo models:
- 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
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
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