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Snakes are elongate, legless, carnivorous reptiles of the suborder Serpentes that can be distinguished from legless lizards by their lack of eyelids and external ears. Like all squamates, snakes are ectothermic, amniote vertebrates covered in overlapping scales...

is a type of reptile.

Snake may also refer to:

Games and toys

  • Snake (video game)
    Snake (video game)
    Snake is a video game that originated during the late 1970s in arcades and has maintained popularity since then, becoming something of a classic...

  • Snakes (N-Gage game)
    Snakes (N-Gage game)
    Snakes is an update to the classic Snake game from Nokia. It is freely downloadable from the , and can be copied to another N-Gage handset via Bluetooth....

  • S.N.A.K.E., a G.I. Joe accessory
  • Rubik's Snake
    Rubik's Snake
    A Rubik's Snake is a toy with twenty-four wedges identically shaped liked prisms, specifically right isosceles triangular prisms. The wedges are connected, by spring bolts, such that they can be twisted, but not separated...

    , a puzzle toy
  • A technique in racing video games, such as F-Zero GX
    F-Zero GX
    is a futuristic racing video game for the Nintendo GameCube console. Developed by Sega's Amusement Vision department and supervised and published by Nintendo, it was released in Japan, Europe and North America . F-Zero AX, the arcade counterpart of GX, uses hardware conceived from a business...


Music

  • The Snakes
    The Snakes
    The Snakes were a British-Norwegian hard rock band, formed by former Whitesnake members Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody in 1997. The line-up consisted of guitarists Marsden and Moody with Norwegian musicians, vocalist Jørn Lande, bassist Sid Ringsby, who later joined the Norwegian band TNT, and...

    , a band
  • The Snake (Shane MacGowan album)
  • The Snake (Wildbirds & Peacedrums album)
    The Snake (Wildbirds & Peacedrums album)
    The Snake is an album by the Swedish duo Wildbirds & Peacedrums, released in 2008. It was recorded by the band and published by The Leaf Label...

  • "Snake", a song by R. Kelly on the album Chocolate Factory
    Chocolate Factory
    Chocolate Factory is the fifth studio album by American R&B and soul musician R. Kelly, released February 18, 2003 on Jive Records. Recording sessions for the album took place mainly at Rockland Studios and Chicago Recording Company in Chicago, Illinois during 2001 to 2003. It was primarily...

  • "Snakes", a song by No Doubt on the album The Beacon Street Collection
    The Beacon Street Collection
    In 1994, before recording of the album had even begun, No Doubt released two seven-inch singles for their fans. The first was "Squeal", a song written by Eric Stefani, detailing a criminal's reaction to her partner's betrayal to the police. They had agreed to be "in this together" but, after he...

  • "The Snake", a song by Johnny Rivers on the album ...And I Know You Wanna Dance
    ...and i know you wanna dance
    ...And I Know You Wanna Dance was Johnny Rivers's fifth official album, and like all his prior albums it was recorded live at the Whisky a Go Go in Los Angeles, California...

  • "Snakes", a song by Voltaire on the album The Devil's Bris
    The Devil's Bris
    The Devil's Bris is the debut album by the dark cabaret/Dark Wave artist Voltaire. It was released in 1998 by Projekt Records. The album's title is derived from the juxtaposition of the figure of the devil and the Jewish circumcision ritual, the bris milah....


Geography

  • Snake Creek
    Snake Creek
    Snake Creek is a tributary of the Susquehanna River in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, and Broome County, New York, in the United States.Snake Creek joins the Susquehanna at Corbettsville, New York...

    , a tributary in Pennsylvania and New York
  • Snake Creek, Oklahoma
    Snake Creek, Oklahoma
    Snake Creek is a census-designated place in Mayes County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 298 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Snake Creek is located at ....

  • Snake River (disambiguation)
    Snake River (disambiguation)
    The best-known Snake River is a tributary of the Columbia River in the United States.Snake River may also refer to:-Rivers:In Canada*Snake River , tributary of the Ottawa River in Ontario...

  • Snake Pass
    Snake Pass
    The Snake Pass is the name given to the remote, higher reaches of the A57 road where it crosses the Peak District between Manchester and Sheffield in the north of England...

    , a road in England

People

  • Snake Indians
    Snake Indians
    Snake Indians is the common name given by American immigrants on the Oregon Trail to the bands of Northern Paiute, Bannock and Shoshone Native Americans in the Snake River and Owyhee River valleys of southern Idaho and Eastern Oregon...

  • Snake Shyam
    Snake Shyam
    M.S. Balasubramaniam, popularly known as Snake Shyam, is a snake enthusiast, wildlife conservationist and lecturer in Mysore, India. Though not a trained herpetologist, he is known throughout the Mysore region as a "naturalist on wheels". Shyam rescues and rehabilitates snakes and educates the...

    , Indian wildlife conservationist
  • Denis Bélanger
    Denis Bélanger
    Denis "Snake" Bélanger is the vocalist of the Canadian heavy metal band Voivod.He helped co-found the group in 1982, and appeared on nine albums - War & Pain, Rrröööaaarrr, Killing Technology, Dimension Hatröss, Nothingface, Angel Rat and The Outer Limits...

     (born 1960), Canadian vocalist of the band Voivod
  • Jake Plummer
    Jake Plummer
    Jason Steven "Jake" Plummer is a former American football quarterback in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the second round of the 1997 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arizona State....

     (born 1974), American football player
  • Don Prudhomme
    Don Prudhomme
    Don 'The Snake' Prudhomme, is an American drag racer.-Racing career:In 1962, Prudhomme was a partner in the Greer-Black-Prudhomme digger, which earned the best win record in NHRA history, before switching to Funny Car. He would win the NHRA FC championship four times in his thirty-five-year career...

     (born 1941), American drag racer
  • Jake Roberts
    Jake Roberts
    Aurelian Jake Smith, Jr. is a second-generation American professional wrestler, the son of former wrestler Aurelian "Grizzly" Smith...

     (born 1955), American professional wrestler
  • Ken Stabler
    Ken Stabler
    Kenneth "Kenny" Michael Stabler , is a former American football quarterback in the NFL for the Oakland Raiders , the Houston Oilers , and the New Orleans Saints...

     (born 1945), American football player
  • Tom Sturdivant
    Tom Sturdivant
    Thomas Virgil Sturdivant II was an American Major League Baseball pitcher who played for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Pittsburgh Pirates, Detroit Tigers, and New York Mets...

     (1930-2009), American baseball player

Fictional characters

  • Snake Plissken
    Snake Plissken
    S.D. Bob "Snake" Plissken is a fictional character in John Carpenter's films Escape from New York and Escape from L.A., played by Kurt Russell. He is an ex-special forces commando/war hero in World War III turned criminal...

    , an Escape from New York/Escape from L.A. character
  • Archie Simpson
    Archie Simpson
    Archibald Rupert "Snake” Simpson is a fictional character on the Degrassi series portrayed by Stefan Brogren. His first appearance in the series was as an eighth grade student on Degrassi Junior High ...

    , a Degrassi character
  • Snake, a Black Butler character
  • Snake, a The Karate Kid, Part III
    The Karate Kid, Part III
    The Karate Kid, Part III is a 1989 martial arts film, and the second sequel to the hit motion picture The Karate Kid . The film stars Ralph Macchio, Noriyuki "Pat" Morita, Thomas Ian Griffith, Robyn Lively, and Martin Kove. Like the first two films, it was directed by John G. Avildsen and written...

    character
  • Snake, a The Powerpuff Girls character
  • Snake, a The Simpsons character
  • Snake, a Snake Tales character
  • A group of Metal Gear characters

Other uses

  • Snake (computer vision)
  • "Snakes" (CSI), a television episode
  • The Snake (novel), by Mickey Spillane
  • Snake (zodiac)
    Snake (zodiac)
    The Snake is one of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar. The Year of the Snake is associated with the earthly branch symbol 巳.-Years and the Five Elements:...

  • HMS Snake
    HMS Snake
    Seven ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Snake: was a 14-gun sloop purchased in 1777. She was captured by two American privateers in 1781....

    , the name of several Royal Navy ships
  • Black snake (firework)
  • Snake Kung Fu
    Snake Kung Fu
    There are several Chinese martial arts known as Snake Boxing or Fanged Snake Style which imitate the movements of snakes. It is a style of Shaolin Boxing. Proponents claim that adopting the fluidity of snakes allows them to entwine with their opponents in defense and strike them from angles they...

  • "Snake", a poem by D. H. Lawrence
    D. H. Lawrence
    David Herbert Richards Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter who published as D. H. Lawrence. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation...

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