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Pike

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Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:

Fish

  • Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct freshwater fish
  • Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
  • Esox, genus of pikes
  • Mackerel pike or Pacific saury, a fish popular in east Asian cuisine
  • Walleyed pike or walleye, Sander vitreus, not actually a pike, but regionally referred to as such

Places

Russia

  • Shchukino District (Russian for "Pike" District), an area in North-Western Administrative Okrug, part of the federal city of Moscow.

Canada

  • Pike Island (Nunavut)
  • Pike River (Quebec)

Great Britain

  • Clougha Pike, a hill in Lancashire, England
  • Cold Pike, a fell in the Lake District, England
  • Dollywaggon Pike, a fell in the Lake District, England
  • Esk Pike, a fell in the Lake District, England
  • Hartshead Pike, a hill in Lancashire, England
  • Murton Pike, a hill in Cumbria, England
  • Nethermost Pike, a fell in the Lake District, England
  • Pikes (hill), a hill in the Lake District, England
  • Red Pike (Buttermere), a fell near Buttermere in the Lake District, England
  • Red Pike (Wasdale), a fell near Wasdale in the Lake District, England
  • Scafell Pike, the highest mountain in England
  • The Pike (Hesk Fell), one of Wainwright's outlying fells in the Lake District, England

United States

Multiple entities

  • Pike County (disambiguation)
  • Pike Township (disambiguation)

Military

  • Pike (weapon), a long thrusting pole weapon used by infantry
  • Pike square, a Swiss military tactic
  • HMS Pike, the name of five ships of the Royal Navy
  • USS Pike (SS-6), an American Plunger-class submarine
  • USS Pike (SS-173), the first all-welded submarine
  • Pike (munition), a Raytheon-developed guided round fired from a grenade launcher

Music

Sports

  • Pike (diving), a position used in competitive diving
  • Pike (gymnastics), a position in which the body is bent only in the hips
  • Pike, a variant of the kick (b-boy move)
  • Pike, a type of cheerleading jump

Technology

Characters

  • Pike Trickfoot, a gnome cleric in the D&D Web Series Critical Role
  • Pike (Buffyverse character), a minor character in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
  • Langdale Pike, a minor character in The Adventure of the Three Gables, a Sherlock Holmes story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Private Frank Pike Character in UK TV show Dad's Army

Other uses

  • Pike (surname), a list of people
  • Pike Expedition, an American exploration of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
  • Pike pole, a long-handled reaching, holding, and pulling tool
  • Pike potato, a variety of potato
  • Pike or toll road, a road on which fees are collected
  • Pike, a colloquial name for the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity

See also

  • Pike Creek (disambiguation)
  • Piker (disambiguation)
  • Pikes Peak (disambiguation)
  • Pyke (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Pike
  • All pages with titles containing Pike
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