Spur (disambiguation)

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A spur is a metal instrument fastened to the heel of a horse rider.

Spur may also refer to:

In fauna

• Spur (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse
• Spur (zoology), an outgrowth of bone covered in a sheath of horn
• Bone spurs, skeletal disorder forming small bony outgrowth along joint margins
  • Heel spur, a thin spike of calcification in the human foot
  • A condition such as plantar fasciitis, in which "spurs" develop on certain parts of a bone

In flora

• Spur (botany), an elongated appendage of certain sepals
• Spur (vine), one-year-old wood of a grapevine that is pruned back to leave just one or two buds to be used for next year's crop of grapes

In geography

• Spur (topography), a mountain ridge projecting laterally from a main mountain or mountain range
• Spur, Texas, United States
• Spur line, a short railway (railroad) branching from a main line
• Spur route, a short road branching from longer, more important route
• Spur trail, a shorter trail which branches from a longer route

In organizations

• SPUR (magazine), a student magazine in Adelaide, Australia
• San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association, a non-profit research, education, and advocacy organization
• Gruppe SPUR, a German artistic collaboration, and their journal of the same name
• Spur Steak Ranches, a chain of steakhouses in South Africa
• Spur gas, North American gas stations operated by Murphy Oil

In sports

• Tottenham Hotspur F.C., an association football team based in North London, England
• The San Antonio Spurs, a National Basketball Association team based in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
• The Chancellor's Spurs, a traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the college football game between Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin
• The Witbank Spurs, an association football club from South Africa
• SPURS National Honor Society, a collegiate sophomore honor-service society in the United States

In other

• Spur (architecture), the ornament carved on the angles of the bases of early columns
• Spur (typography), a small continuation of part of a printed letter, especially an uppercase G
• Spur, or a spurious tone, a tone in an electronic circuit which interferes with a signal
• Spur, or trace (linear algebra), sum of the elements on the main diagonal
• Spur Award, an annual literary prize awarded by the Western Writers of America
• Spur gear, the simplest and probably most common type of gear
• Spurs (short story), a short story by Tod Robbins that served as the basis of the film Freaks

See also

• All pages beginning with "spur"
• All pages with a title containing spur
• Spurr (disambiguation)
• Spurt (disambiguation)