Spear (disambiguation)

A spear is a pole weapon used for hunting and combat.

Spear may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

• Spear (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
• Spear (film), a 2015 Australian film
• Spear (Pokémon), the Japanese name for Beedrill, a Pokémon character
• Spear (Griffith novel), a 2022 fantasy novella by Nicola Griffith
• The Spear (novel), a 1978 novel by James Herbert
• The Spear (painting), a 2010 painting by Brett Murray
• Spear's, a wealth management magazine

Military

• Operation Spear (2005), US military action in Iraq
• SAS Spear, the first submarine of the South African Navy
• SPEAR 3, a European air-to-ground missile
• Spears, slang for nuclear weapons

People with the name

• Spear (surname)
• Spear Lancaster, 2002 candidate for Governor of Maryland

Sports

• Spear (wrestling), a professional wrestling attack
• Spear tackle, head-first thrust into the ground

Other uses

• Spear (liturgy), used in the Byzantine-Rite Churches
• Cape Spear, in Newfoundland, Canada
• Asparagus spear, a stalk of asparagus
• Singapore Prisons Emergency Action Response, a department within the Singapore Prison Service
• Spear Lúin, Irish mythological treasure
• Spear side, the male line of a family
• SPEAR System or S.P.E.A.R., a self-defense system based on physics and physiology
• Special Program for Embassy Augmentation and Response, a US antiterrorism and policing force
• Stanford Positron Electron Asymmetric Ring, an electron-positron collider now part of the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource facility

See also

• Justice Spear (disambiguation)
• Speare, a surname
• Spearing (disambiguation)
• Spears (disambiguation)