Creep, Creeps, CREEP, or Creeping may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

• Creeps (film), a 1956 short starring the Three Stooges

• The Creeps (film), a 1997 film directed by Charles Band

• Creep (2004 film), a 2004 British-German horror film

Creep (2014 film), an American found-footage horror film

• Creep 2, a 2017 American found-footage horror film; sequel to the 2014 film

• The Creeping (film), a 2022 British horror film

Television

• "The Creeps", an episode of the TV series Adventure Time

Gaming

• "Creep", a carpet of bio-matter Zerg colonies produce in the StarCraft video game franchise

• The Creeps!, a 2008 tower defense video game

Literature

• Creeps (novel), a 2013 young adult novel by Darren Hynes

• The Creeping (novel), a 2015 young adult novel by Alexandra Sirowy

Music

Groups

• Creep (band), an American electronic music band

• The Creeps, a 1980s Swedish band that won the Rockbjörnen prize in 1990

• The Creeps, a 1960s South African band featuring David Kramer

Albums

• Creeps, 2015 album from Indian Handcrafts

Songs

• "Creep" (Mobb Deep song)

• "Creep" (Radiohead song)

• "Creep" (Stone Temple Pilots song)

• "Creep" (TLC song)

• "The Creep" (song), by the Lonely Island

• "The Creeps" (Camille Jones song), remixed by, among others, Fedde le Grand

• "The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor)", song by the Freaks

• "Creeping" (song), a 2018 single by Lil Skies featuring Rich the Kid

• "Creepin'" (Eric Church song), 2011

• "Creepin'", (Kingswood song), 2016

• "Creepin'" (Metro Boomin, the Weeknd and 21 Savage song), 2023

• "Creep", a song by Dannii Minogue on the album Neon Nights

• "C.R.E.E.P.", a song by the Fall

• "The Creep", a 1950s instrumental by Ken Mackintosh

• "Creepin'", a 1974 song by Stevie Wonder from his album Fulfillingness' First Finale

Theatre

• Creeps (play), a 1971 play by David E. Freeman

Project management

• Feature creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software

• Instruction creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions

• Job creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of job responsibilities

• Mission creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission

• Scope creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project

Science

Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses

• Coble creep

• Diffusion creep

• Dislocation creep

• Nabarro–Herring creep

Creep, the advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip; see rail adhesion

• Idle creep, the tendency of a car with an automatic transmission to roll without the brakes engaged or the gear set to neutral

• Creeping wave, a type of electromagnetic diffraction

• Aseismic creep, a slow, steady movement along an earthquake fault

• Chip creep, phenomenon of chips moving out of sockets

• Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low-grade slope

• Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems

• Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container; see Superfluidity

Other

• Creepiness, causing a feeling of unease

• Creeping attack, war tactic used against submarines

• Creeping normality, process by which a change can be accepted through happening slowly

• Creeping Jesus, pejorative term for someone making public display of religiosity or piety in a manner which seems hypocritical and simply for show

• Ad creep, process of increasing advertising over time

• Cattle creep, a type of accessway between fields for livestock

• Christmas creep, phenomenon of Christmas merchandising before the holiday season

• Committee for the Re-Election of the President (CRP), mockingly abbreviated as CREEP, a fundraising organization for Richard Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign

• Concept creep, the expansion of a concept to include increasing amounts of topics

• Creep feeding, method of supplementing the diet of nursing livestock

• Fader creep, sound engineering phenomenon

• Lifestyle creep, social phenomenon through which former luxuries become perceived as necessities due to a higher standard of living

• Zoom creep, photography phenomenon

See also

• Creeper (disambiguation)

• Creepshow (disambiguation)

• Creepy (disambiguation)

• KREEP (coined from abbreviations for "potassium", "rare-earth elements", and "phosphorus"), component of some lunar rocks