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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 and arts 5 Music 6 People 7 Sports and games 8 Vehicles 9 Electronics and computing 10 Other uses

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

Sports 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
• 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
• 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

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