Spider (disambiguation)

A spider is an invertebrate animal that produces silk, has eight legs and no wings.Spider or Spyder may also refer to:

Comics

* The Spider, a pulp magazine/chapter film/comic book hero produced by Popular Publications from 1933 to 1943
* Alias the Spider, a comic book character from DC Comics
* The Spider (comic), the lead character in a British adventure strip published in the weekly comic book, "Lion". Superman creator Jerry Siegel wrote several of his adventures
* The Spiders (comic), a webcomic by Patrick S. Farley
* Spyder, a fictional crime lord from Marvel Comics
* Spider Jerusalem, the protagonist of the comic book Transmetropolitan created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Darick Robertson.
* Spider-Man

Film and television

* Spider (solitaire), a type of solitaire card game
* "Spider" (film), a film by David Cronenberg (2002), based on the novel
* "Spiders" (film), a 2000 American horror film from Nu Image
* "The Spider", a 1931 black and white film
* "The Spider", an alternate name for the 1958 film "Earth vs. the Spider"
* "Spider" (TV series), a musical children's television series that aired in 1991 on the BBC
* Spider, a cartoon character by Osamu Tezuka cing chow
*Mohawk the spider Gremlin, a fictional character from the movie "Gremlins 2" [1990]
* Spider-Man (film series)

Food and drink

* Spider (drink), an Australian or New Zealand term for a frothy drink made from soda, flavoring, and ice cream
* Spider, a cast iron frying pan with legs
* Spider (utensil) a kind of skimmer used in Chinese cooking

Literature and arts

* "Spider" (novel), a novel by Patrick McGrath

Music

* The Spiders, R&B vocal group of the 1950s
* Spider (band), a 1980s US rock band
* "The Spiders", the original band name of Alice Cooper
* The Spiders (Japanese band), a Japanese Group Sounds band dissolved in 1971
* Spider (Malaysian band), a Malaysian rock band.
* "The Spider (Help)", a 1992 techno single by Eon
* "Spider", a track from They Might Be Giants' 1992 album "Apollo 18"
* "Spiders", a track from Editors second album "An End Has A Start"
* Spiders (album), the debut album released by Space in 1996
* Spiders (System of a Down song), a 1999 single by the band System of a Down
* "Spiders (Kidsmoke)", a song on Wilco's 2004 album "A Ghost Is Born"
* "Spider" (スパイダー), a 1994 single by the Japanese rock band Spitz
* Spider Loc, West Coast rapper signed to G-Unit Records
* Spider One, Lead singer of Powerman 5000 and the younger brother of Rob Zombie
* Spider Stacy, stage name for Peter Stacy, tin whistle player in punk group The Pogues.
* "Spiders", a track from Moby's album "Hotel".
* "Spider", the seventh track from Oingo Boingo's 1994 album Boingo.
* "The Spider", a track from the Kansas album Point of Know Return

People

* Spider Robinson, a science fiction writer
* Spider, the nickname of Vladimir Sabich, an Olympic skier who was shot to death by his girlfriend
* Spider Stacey, Musician and member of The Pogues
* Michael Gianco, "Spider", Lucchese crime family associate and bartender
* Anderson "The Spider" Silva, a Mixed Martial Arts fighter
* Peter "Spida" Everitt, an AFL footballer who played for Hawthorn and Sydney
* Matthew "Spider" Burton, an AFL footballer who played for Fremantle and North Melbourne

ports and games

* Spider (solitaire), a type of solitaire card game
* Spider, a type of rest used in snooker and related games
* Cleveland Spiders, a Major League Baseball team, active from 1887-1899
* San Francisco Spiders, a hockey team that played only in the 1996 season of the International Hockey League
* Spyder, a series of paintball markers created from the parent company Kingman Group
* Spyder, a type of 'petpet' used on the online world, Neopets

Vehicles

* Spyder/Spider, convertible car body style (pronounced in Italian as "speeder")
* Spider, the model of a car made by Alfa Romeo
* Spider, the callsign of the Lunar Module of Apollo 9
* Spyder, a 3-wheels roadster by Can-Am (Bombardier Recreational Products)
* Spider, a light strike vehicle for military and homeland security use

Electronics and computing

* Web crawler, an automated software agent that gathers pages from the World Wide Web
*Spider also refers to the Latest AMD Platform - The AMD Spider
* Spider, an acronym for "Specific Pages for Individuals with Direct Electronic Reporting" that increases direct mail response
* , a video game for the Sony Playstation
* [http://bif.csd.uwo.ca/spider/ SPIDER] , an online program that matches peptides generated by "de novo" sequencing software from tandem mass spectrometry data to proteins in a database, while accounting for sequencing errors
* Spider (internet magazine), a publication of the Dawn group of Pakistan
* Spider, a suspension component of a loudspeaker used to provide centering and a return force to the voice coil

Other uses

* spider unit used for conveyors
* SPDRs, Spiders or Spyders, a family of indexed investment funds
* SS-23 Spider, the NATO reporting name for the R-400 Oka theatre ballistic missile
* SPIDER, an acronym for spectral phase interferometry for direct electric-field reconstruction, a complete temporal characterisation technique in ultrafast optics
* Spider, a symbol for scariness in the Dutch film rating system
* The Spider (Al-Ankabut in Arabic), the 29th chapter of the Qur'an
*Spider (ski apparel brand), long-time sponsor of U.S. ski team
*Spider crater, a meteorite impact crater in Western Australia
*Spider (weapon), anti-personnel landmine alternative
*SPYDER, anti-aircraft missile system
* the portion of a bicycle crankset connecting the axle or spindle to one or more rings