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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.
- The spider is sometimes used as symbol for scariness, for example in the Dutch movie rating system. Spider lovers are not happy with this.
- 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.
- Spiders can also be made by adding ice cream to beer (beer spiders).
- A spider is also a cast-iron frying pan, so-named from the small legs with which they were originally made, on which they could be set among coals for cooking.
- "Spider" is a track from They Might Be Giants's 1992 album Apollo 18.
- The Spider, a radio/pulp magazine/comic book hero produced by Popular Publications from 1933 to 1943.
- Spider is a film by David Cronenberg (2002).
- 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
- 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).
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