A spur is a metal instrument fastened to the heel of a horse rider.
Spur or Spurs may also refer to:
Arts and media Spur (architecture), the ornament carved on the angles of the bases of early columns "Spurs" (short story), by Tod Robbins; served as the basis of the film Freaks Spur (typography), a small continuation of part of a printed letter, especially an uppercase G Spur Award, an annual literary prize awarded by the Western Writers of America The Spurs, a Canadian country music group 1999–2000 Gruppe SPUR, a German artistic collaboration, and their journal of the same name
Organizations
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 SPURS National Honor Society, a collegiate sophomore honor-service society in the US Spur gas, North American gas stations operated by Murphy Oil
Places Spur (lunar crater) Spur, Texas, US Spur Gasoline Station, a historic building in Cynthiana, Kentucky, US The Spur, a collection of Arts and Crafts bungalows in Clifton, Christchurch, New Zealand
Science and technology Biology and medicine Spur (botany), an elongated appendage of certain sepals 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 Bone spurs, a skeletal disorder forming small bony outgrowth along joint margins Heel spur, a thin spike of calcification in the human foot
Geology and Earth science 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 (lunar crater) Spur (topography), a mountain ridge projecting laterally from a main mountain or mountain range Truncated spur, a ridge that ends in an inverted-V face and was produced by the erosion
Other uses in science and technology Spur (chemistry), a region of high concentration of reaction product Spur gear, a type of gear Spurious tone or spur, a tone in an electronic circuit which interferes with a signal
Sports Tottenham Hotspur F.C., a football team based in Tottenham, north 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 Cape Town Spurs F.C., a football team based in Cape Town, South Africa Witbank Spurs, a defunct association football club that was based in Witbank, South Africa 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
Types of route 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
Other uses Spur (horse), an American thoroughbred racehorse 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
See also Spurr (disambiguation) Spurt (disambiguation)