Spider (disambiguation)
From Biocrawler, the free encyclopedia.
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.
- A spider is a frothy drink made from soda, flavoring, and ice cream. Beer Spiders are similar, subsituting beer for soft drink.
- A spider is also a cast-iron frying pan, so-named from the small legs with which they were originally made, on which they could be set among coals for cooking.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.
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.
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.
