Spurs are tools worn on the heel of a boot, used when riding horses.
Spurs can also refer to:
- The San Antonio Spurs, a National Basketball Association team based in San Antonio, Texas, U.S.A.
- Tottenham Hotspur F.C., an association football team based in North London, England
- The 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
- The Witbank Spurs, an association football club from South Africa
- Spur gears, the most common type of gear
- A condition such as plantar fasciitis, in which "spurs" develop on certain parts of a bone
- SPURS National Honor Society, a collegiate sophomore honor-service society in the United States
- Spurs (short story), a short story by Tod Robbins that served as the basis of the film Freaks
- Bone spurs
Famous quotes containing the word spurs:
“The wand is will; thou, fancy, saddle art,
Girt fast by memory; and while I spur
My horse, he spurs with sharp desire my heart;”
—Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)
“The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)