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A spider is an invertebrate animal that produces silk, has eight legs and no wings. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Diversity 111 families, 40,000 species Suborders Mesothelae Mygalomorphae Araneomorphae  See table of families Wikispecies has information related to: Spiders Spiders are predatory invertebrate animals that have two body segments, eight legs, no chewing mouth parts and no wings. ...

Spider or Spyder may also refer to:

Comics

• Spider-Man, a comic book character from Marvel 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
• Spider, a comic strip by Mort Walker before he began drawing Beetle Bailey
• 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, a webcomic by Patrick S. Farley
• Spider Jerusalem, a fictional character appearing in the series Transmetropolitan
• Spyder, a fictional crime lord from Marvel Comics

Spider-Man swinging around his hometown, New York City. ... The Spider was the violent, relentless hero of a pulp magazine series produced by Popular Publications from 1933 to 1943. ... Alias the Spider was a fairly obscure comic book feature from the Golden Age that appeared in Crack Comics for nearly three years (starting with issue #1 in 1940). ... Addison Morton Walker (born September 3, 1923), more popularly known as Mort Walker, is an American comic artist, best known for creating the newspaper comic strips Beetle Bailey in 1950 and Hi and Lois in 1954. ... The Spider is a comic book character who started out as a a supervillian before becoming a superhero. ... The Spiders is a webcomic written and illustrated by cartoonist Patrick S. Farley for his website, Electric Sheep Comix. ... Spider Jerusalem is a fictional character and the protagonist of the comic book Transmetropolitan, created by writer Warren Ellis and artist Darick Robertson, published by the Vertigo imprint of DC Comics. ... Spyder is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...

Film and television

• Spider (film), a film by David Cronenberg (2002), based on the novel
• 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
• Spider-Man film series

Ralph Fiennes in Spider Spider is a 2001 film by Canadian director David Cronenberg. ... For the 2001 television film, see Earth vs. ... Spider was a musical childrens television series made by Hibbert Ralph Entertainment for the BBC that aired in 1991. ... Over the course of his career, the mangaka Osamu Tezuka reused the same characters in different roles in different stories. ... The Spider-Man film series currently consists of three superhero films based on the fictional Marvel Comics character of the same name, portrayed by Tobey Maguire. ...

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, a wire strainer (often with a wooden handle) used when frying or boiling food

A lime spider The ice cream soda is a treat made, typically, by mixing ice cream with either a soft drink (commonly root beer) or flavored syrup and carbonated water, often with some special technique to encourage the partial slushing of the ice cream itself. ... A stainless steel frying pan. ...

Literature

• Spider (novel), a novel by Patrick McGrath

Spider is a novel by the British novelist Patrick McGrath, originally published in the United States in 1990. ...

Music

• The Spiders from Mars, David Bowie's band
• The Spiders (Japanese band), a Japanese Group Sounds band dissolved in 1971
• "The Spider (Help)", a 1992 techno single by Eon
• "Spider", a track from They Might Be Giants' 1992 album Apollo 18
• 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

The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, or simply Ziggy Stardust for short, is a 1972 concept album by David Bowie, praised as the definitive album of the 1970s by Melody Maker magazine. ... The Spiders The Spiders were a Japanese band in the Group Sounds era who were one of the top three bands of that genre, a cultural pop music scene unique to Japan. ... // Also known as Ian Loveday this house and techno pioneer released a seminal cd Void Dweller (Sept 1992) with dark and hard driving beats, with samples of Dune and themes from the classic horror movie Basket Case (film). ... Apollo 18 is They Might Be Giants fourth studio album. ... Spiders is the debut album by Space, released in 1996. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A Ghost Is Born is an album by the band Wilco. ... // Cover of Aurora ni Nerenakatta Hito no Tame ni. ... Curtis Norvell Williams (born on January 21, 1979 in Compton, California[1]) is a rapper known as Spider Loc, who is part of the G-Unit clique. ... Spider One (born Michael David Cummings on August 25, 1968 in Haverhill, Massachusetts, U.S.A.) is a musician; the lead singer of the Boston-based heavy metal band, Powerman 5000; and owner of Megatronic Records. ...

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

Spider Robinson (born November 24, 1948 in New York City) is a Canadian science fiction writer. ... Vladimir Spider Sabich, Jr. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...

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

This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The Cleveland Spiders were a Major League Baseball team which played between 1887 and 1899 in Cleveland, Ohio. ... The San Francisco Spiders were a franchise in the former International Hockey League. ... A woodsball player firing at opponents from behind cover. ... Neopets is an online virtual pet site where users can create and take care of up to four virtual pets, buying them food, toys and other accessories using a virtual currency called Neopoints (NP). ...

Vehicles

• Spyder, a rear mid-engine rear wheel drive 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 (roadster), a 3-wheels roadster by Can-Am (Bombardier Recreational Products)
• Spider, a light, high-wheeled vehicle

Spyder or Spider is a term for a convertible car body style. ... Alfa Romeo is an Italian automobile manufacturing company, founded as Darracq Italiana by Cavaliere Ugo Stella, an aristocrat from Milan in partnership with the French automobile firm of Alexandre Darracq. ... Apollo 9 was the third manned mission in the Apollo program, a ten day earth-orbital mission launched 3 March 1969. ... BRP Can-Am Spyder roadster The Can-Am Spyder roadster is a brand new vehicule done by Bombardier Recreational Products that will be released in Q4 2007 or Q1 2008. ...

Other uses

• Spider, a loudspeaker component
• 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
• Web spider (Web crawler), automated software agent that gathers pages from the World Wide Web
• Spider, a pseudo-acronym (SPDR) for a Standard and Poor's Depositary Receipt.
• 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 crater, a meteorite impact crater in Western Australia
• Spyder (ski apparel brand), long-time sponsor of U.S. ski team
• 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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