Spider (disambiguation)

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Spider has several meanings:

• Spiders are a type of arachnid; more generally, they are arthropods; even more so, they are animals.

Objects named after Spiders:

• Web crawlers, automated software agents that gather pages from the World Wide Web are also known as spiders.
• In Australian English, a spider is a frothy drink made from soda, flavoring, and ice cream. Beer Spiders are similar, subsituting beer for soft drink. The American name for the soda version of this beverage is a 'float,' sometimes also called an ice cream soda. The most popular variety is the root beer float.
• A spider is also a cast-iron frying pan, so-named from the small legs with which they were originally made, on which they could be set among coals for cooking.
• Spiders are shares of ETF traded on AMEX under the ticker SPY based on the S&P 500. (See Exchange-traded fund for more information).
• SS-23 Spider is the NATO reporting name for the R-400 Oka theatre ballistic missile.
• A spider is also a wire strainer (often with a wooden handle) used when frying or boiling food.

Cultural references:

• "Spider" is a track from They Might Be Giants's 1992 album Apollo 18.
• Spider is a film by David Cronenberg (2002), based on the novel Spider by Patrick McGrath.
• Spider was a children's television series that aired in 1991 on the BBC
• Spider is a type of solitaire card game.
• Spider is a type of rest used in snooker and related games.
• The Cleveland Spiders were a Major League Baseball team, active from 1887-1899.
• "Spider" is an alternative spelling of Spyder, a car body style
• The spider is sometimes used as symbol for scariness, for example in the Dutch movie rating system. Most spider enthusiasts take issue with spiders being portrayed in this way.
• Spiders is the name of a single released by the band System of a Down.
• Spider (スパイダー）is the name of a single released by the Japanese rock band SPITZ.
• Spider is the last, too bitter sip of beer. The following is an example of typical useage: "Dude, don't drink the spider! It's nasty." The term was coined in Northern California's San Francisco Bay Area.
• The Spider is a 1931 B&W film.
• The Spiders is a webcomic by Patrick S. Farley.

People named Spider, real and fictional:

• Spider Robinson, a science fiction writer.
• Spider Jerusalem, a fictional character appearing in the series Transmetropolitan.
• 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 is a cartoon character by Osamu Tezuka.
• Spider was a comic strip by Mort Walker before he began drawing Beetle Bailey.