Spring

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Spring(s) may refer to:

• Spring (season), a season of the year
• Spring (device), a mechanical device that stores energy
• Spring (hydrology), a natural source of water
• Spring (mathematics), a geometric surface in the shape of a helically coiled tube
• Spring (political terminology), often used to name periods of political liberalization
• Springs (tide), in oceanography, the spring tide

Art and entertainment

Art

• Primavera (painting) (English translation: Spring), a painting by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1482
• Spring (painting), a 1894 oil painting by Lawrence Alma-Tadema
• Spring, a painting by Édouard Manet
• Spring, a painting by Christopher Williams

Film

• In Spring (1929 film) (Весной), a Soviet film
• Springtime (1947 film) (Весна), a Soviet film
• Spring (1969 film) (Kevade), an Estonian film
• The Spring, a 1989 US independent film
• Spring (2014 film), an American romantic science fiction horror film

Literature

• Spring (Runelords), a character in The Runelords series of fantasy novels by David Farland
• Spring (Kevade), a novel by Oskar Luts; basis for the 1969 film (see above)

Music

Groups

• Spring (band), an English band, or the band's only album
• Spring (Belgian band), a group that performed at Marktrock 2004
• American Spring, a 1970s pop music duo, known from 1971/'72 as "Spring"
• Springs, a Japanese band, formed by Aya Hirano, Yuuki Yoshida, Ayaka Itō

Albums and EPs

• Spring (American Spring album), 1972
• Spring (Cyann & Ben album), 2004
• Spring (Tony Williams album), 1965
• Spring (Jon Foreman EP), 2008
• Spring (April EP), 2016
• Spring (Akdong Musician EP), 2016
• The Blake Project: Spring, an album by Finn Coren, 1997
  • Spring: The Appendix, a follow-up album, 1998
• Spring, an album by Clay Hart, 1969
• Spring, an EP by Subtle, 2003
• Spring!, an album by The Lettermen, (1967)

Songs

• "Spring" (song), a song by RMB, (1996)

Classical works

• "Spring" (concerto), "La primavera", from Vivaldi's The Four Seasons
• Spring (Rachmaninoff), a 1902 cantata by Sergei Rachmaninoff
• "Spring" (Rammstein song)
• "Spring" (sonata), Violin Sonata No. 5 by Beethoven
• In Spring, a symphony by John Knowles Paine
• Spring Symphony, a symphony by Benjamin Britten
• Symphony No. 1 (Schumann) (Spring), by Robert Schumann

Publications

• Spring: A Journal of Archetype and Culture, a psychology journal

Television

• "Spring" (Pee-wee's Playhouse), an episode of Pee-wee's Playhouse
• Spring (TV series), a Flemish-Belgian television series

Business, government and education

• Spring! (brand), a brand of bottled water
• Spring (store), a Canada-based shoe retailer
• Spring Airlines, a Chinese airline
• SPRING Singapore, a governmental department of Singapore
• Springs Christian Academy, a private school in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
• Springs Global, a Brazil-based corporation
• The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, a museum in Hampshire, England

Computing

• Spring (application), an E-commerce platform
• Spring (game engine), an open-source RTS engine
• Spring (operating system), an experimental operating system from Sun Microsystems
• SPRING, a GIS and remote-sensing image-processing system with an object-oriented data-model
• Spring Framework, an open-source application-framework for the Java platform

People

Groups

• Spring baronets, of Pakenham
• Spring family, English noble family

People with the given name

• Spring Byington (1886–1971), American actress
• Spring Cooper (born 1980), American academic and author

People with the surname

• Amos Spring (1880–1958), English cricketer
• Antoine Frédéric Spring (1814–1872), Belgian physician and botanist
• Arthur Spring (born 1976), Irish Labour Party politician
• Bryan Spring (born 1945), British jazz drummer
• Charles A. Spring (1800–1892), American merchant and religious leader
• Christopher Spring (born 1984), Canadian bobsledder
• Cecil Spring Rice (1859–1918), British diplomat
• Dick Spring (born 1950), Irish businessman and politician
• Dryden Spring (born 1939), New Zealand businessman
• George E. Spring (1859–1917), New York state senator
• Howard Spring (1889–1965), Welsh author
• Jack Spring (1933–2015), American baseball pitcher
• Richard Spring, Baron Risby (born 1946), British politician
• Rudi Spring (born 1962), German pianist and composer
• Sherwood C. Spring (born 1944), United States Army officer and astronaut

Places

• Spring (building), a residential condominium in Austin, Texas
• Șpring, a commune in Alba County, Romania
• Spring District, neighborhood in Bellevue, Washington
• Spring, Texas, U.S.
• Springs, Gauteng, South Africa
• Springs, New York, a part of East Hampton, New York, U.S.
• Springs, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• Springs, the location of Dubai British School in Dubai
• The Springs, California, U.S.

See also

• Hooke's law, for the mathematical model of certain processes
• Primavera (disambiguation)
• Spring Creek (disambiguation)
• Spring Lake (disambiguation)
• Spring River (disambiguation)
• Spring Township (disambiguation)
• Springer (disambiguation)
• Springfield (disambiguation)
• Springtime (disambiguation)
• Category:Spring (season), for articles related to the season
• Category:Springs, for articles related to the water source
• Category:Springs (mechanical), for articles related to the device
• All pages beginning with "Spring"
• Sprung (disambiguation)