Spurs

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 (1554–1586)

    The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day.
    Now spurs the lated traveller apace
    To gain the timely inn.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)