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Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:
Fishes
- 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
- Northern pike, common northern hemisphere pike
- 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
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 of America
- Pike County (disambiguation)
- Pike Township (disambiguation)
- Pike, Indiana
- Pikeville, Kentucky, originally known as Pike
- Pike, New Hampshire
- Pike, New York, a town
- Pike (CDP), New York, hamlet in the town of Pike
- Pike, Texas, an unincorporated community
- Pike, West Virginia
- Pike Bay Township, Cass County, Minnesota
- Pike Creek, Delaware, an unincorporated community
- Pike Creek Township, Morrison County, Minnesota
- Pike Island, Minnesota
- Pike National Forest, Colorado
- Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington
- Pike Road, Alabama
- Pikes Peak, in Colorado
- The Pike, an amusement park in California
People
- Pike (surname)
- Pike, a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
Music
- Pikes (album), released by Buckethead in 2013
- The Northern Pikes, Canadian rock band
Military
- Pike (weapon), a long thrusting pole weapon used by infantry
- Pike expedition, an American exploration of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains
- 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
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
- Pike (cipher), a stream cipher invented by Ross Anderson
- Red Pike (cipher), a British government cipher
- Pike (programming language), an interpreted, general-purpose, high-level, cross-platform, dynamic programming language, with a syntax similar to that of C
Other uses
- Pike or toll road, a course in which fees are collected; sometimes a historical name of a former toll road
- Pike pole, a long-handled reaching, holding, and pulling tool
- Pike potato
See also
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