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

Spur or Spurs may also refer to:

Medicine

Bone spurs, a skeletal disorder forming small bony outgrowth along joint margins

• Heel spur, a thin spike of calcification in the human foot

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

• Spur gas, North American gas stations operated by Murphy Oil

Routes

• 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

Science

• 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

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

Other uses

• 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

See also

• Spurr (disambiguation)

• Spurt (disambiguation)