Spider (disambiguation)

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A spider is an invertebrate animal that produces silk, has eight legs and no wings.

Contents 1 Comics 2 Film and television 3 Food and drink 4 Literature 5 Music 6 People 7 Sports and games 8 Vehicles 9 Other uses

Spider or Spyder may also refer to:

[edit] Comics

• Spider-Man, a comic book character from Marvel Comics
• The Spider, a radio/pulp magazine/comic book hero produced by Popular Publications from 1933 to 1943
• Alias the Spider, a comic book character from DC Comics
• Spider, a comic strip by Mort Walker before he began drawing Beetle Bailey
• 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, a webcomic by Patrick S. Farley

[edit] Film and television

• Spider (film), a film by David Cronenberg (2002), based on the novel
• The Spider, a 1931 black and white film
• Spider (children's television series), a children's television series that aired in 1991 on the BBC
• Spider Jerusalem, a fictional character appearing in the series Transmetropolitan
• Spider, a cartoon character by Osamu Tezuk

[edit] 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
• Spider, a wire strainer (often with a wooden handle) used when frying or boiling food

[edit] Literature

• Spider (novel), a novel by Patrick McGrath

[edit] Music

• 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
• "Spider", a track from They Might Be Giants' 1992 album Apollo 18
• "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
• The Spiders (Japanese band), a Japanese Group Sounds band dissolved in 1971
• Spider Loc, West Coast rapper signed to G-Unit Records
• Spider One, Lead singer of the Boston-based heavy metal band, Powerman 5000.

[edit] 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.

[edit] Sports and games

• Spider (solitaire), a type of solitaire card game
• Spider (object), 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

[edit] Vehicles

• Spider, a light, high-wheeled vehicle
• Spider, the model of a car made by Alfa Romeo
• Spider, the callsign of the Lunar Module of Apollo 9
• Spyder, a rear mid-engine rear wheel drive convertible car body style

[edit] Other uses

• Spider, a loudspeaker component
• Spider, a video game for the Sony Playstation
• 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
• Web spider (Web crawler), automated software agent that gathers pages from the World Wide Web
• Spider, a pseudo-acronym (SPDR) for a Standard and Poor's Depositary Receipt.
• SS-23 Spider, the NATO reporting name for the R-400 Oka theatre ballistic missile
• SPIDER, an acronym for spectral interferometry for direct electric field reconstruction, a 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