Spur (disambiguation)

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A spur is a metal instrument fastened to the heel of a horse rider.

Spur or Spurs may also refer to:

• Bone spurs, a skeletal disorder forming small bony outgrowth along joint margins
  • Heel spur, a thin spike of calcification in the human foot

• San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association, a non-profit research, education, and advocacy organization
• Gruppe SPUR, a German artistic collaboration, and their journal of the same name
• Spur Steak Ranches, a chain of steakhouses in South Africa
• Spur gas, North American gas stations operated by Murphy Oil

• Spur line, a short railway (railroad) branching from a main line
• Spur route, a short road branching from longer, more important route
• Spur trail, a shorter trail which branches from a longer route

• Spur (botany), an elongated appendage of certain sepals
• Spur (geology), a ridge, often one that is subordinate to a larger ridge
  • Interlocking spur, one of any number of ridges extending alternately from the opposite sides of the wall of a young, V-shaped valley
• Spur (stem), a short flower- and fruit-bearing stem on some fruit trees
• Spur (zoology), an outgrowth of bone covered in a sheath of horn
• Spur (chemistry), a region of high concentration of reaction product

• Witbank Spurs, an association football club from South Africa
• Tottenham Hotspur F.C., a football team based in London, England
• San Antonio Spurs, a National Basketball Association team based in San Antonio, Texas, US
  • Spurs Sports & Entertainment, the company that owns the San Antonio Spurs and other sports-related assets
• Chancellor's Spurs, a traveling trophy awarded to the winner of the college football game between Texas Tech University and the University of Texas at Austin

• Spur (architecture), the ornament carved on the angles of the bases of early columns
• Spur (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse
• Spur (lunar crater)
• "Spurs" (short story), a short story by Tod Robbins that served as the basis of the film Freaks
• Spur (topography), a mountain ridge projecting laterally from a main mountain or mountain range
• Spur (typography), a small continuation of part of a printed letter, especially an uppercase G
• Spur (vine), one-year-old wood of a grapevine that is pruned back to leave just one or two buds to be used for next year's crop of grapes
• Spur, Texas, United States
• Spur Award, an annual literary prize awarded by the Western Writers of America
• Spur Gasoline Station, a historic building in Cynthiana, kentucky
• Spur gear, a type of gear
• SPURS National Honor Society, a collegiate sophomore honor-service society in the United States
• Spurious tone or spur, a tone in an electronic circuit which interferes with a signal
• The Spur, a collection of Arts and Crafts bungalows in Clifton, Christchurch, New Zealand
• The Spurs, a Canadian country music group 1999–2000
• Truncated spur

• Spurr (disambiguation)
• Spurt (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with spur
• All pages with titles containing spur

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