Spot or SPOT may refer to:

Places

* Spot, North Carolina, a community in the United States * The Spot, New South Wales, a locality in Sydney, Australia * South Pole Traverse, sometimes called the South Pole Overland Traverse

People

* Spot (producer), the house producer and engineer for the label SST Records * Spot (rapper) * Spot Collins (1922-1996), American football player and coach * Jerry Chamberlain (known as "Spot"), the guitarist for the rock group the Swirling Eddies * Scott Draves (known as "Spot"), digital artist and VJ * Moondog Spot, a ring name for professional wrestler Larry Booker

Advertising

* Radio spot, an over-the-air advertisement * TV spot, a televised advertisement * Underwriting spot, an announcement made on public broadcasting outlets, especially in the United States, in exchange for funding

Animals

* Spot, a dog that remained faithful after his master's death, described in the List of individual dogs#Faithful after master's death, List of individual dogs * Spot Fetcher, a dog owned by U.S. President George W. Bush

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

* Spot, a character in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated film ''The Good Dinosaur'' * Spot (chicken), in ''101 Dalmatians: The Series'' * Spot (comics), a Spider-Man villain * Spot (franchise), the titular puppy in a series of children's books and animated television shows created by Eric Hill * Spot (Star Trek), Spot (''Star Trek''), a pet cat in ''Star Trek: The Next Generation'' * Spot, a pet dog in the ''Dick and Jane'' textbook series * Spot, a cat in the cartoon series ''Hong Kong Phooey'' * Spot, a pet dog from the William Joyce series ''Rolie Polie Olie'' * Spot, a pet amoeba in the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants (season 11), ''SpongeBob SquarePants'' season 11 * Spot, a deity in a sketch by Canadian comedy troupe The Kids In The Hall * Spot, a pet dragon in the TV series ''The Munsters'' * Spot, Dairine's sentient computer in the Young Wizards series *Spot, a dog in the ''Isle of Dogs (film), Isle of Dogs'' movie

Music

* Spot (album), ''Spot'' (album), by the synthpop band And One * Spot (music festival), a music festival held in Denmark * "Sex Pistols On Tour Secretly" or SPOTS, a name the Sex Pistols toured under in the United Kingdom

Biology and healthcare

* Spot (fish), a fish (''Leiostomus xanthurus'') * SpoT, a bacterial protein that hydrolizes (p)ppGpp * Spot, any of several typically spot-forming fungal or bacterial leaf diseases on plants, caused, for example, by ''Diplocarpon'' variants (Diplocarpon rosae, black spot on roses) * Cherry angioma, called Campbell de Morgan spots, small red spots on the skin (usually harmless) * Metrorrhagia or spotting, vaginal bleeding not synchronized with a menstrual period * Pimple or spot, a skin blemish

Brands and enterprises

* SPoT Coffee, a coffee chain * Spotify (NYSE: SPOT), Swedish media company * Spot, a mascot for 7 Up soft drinks

Finance

* Spot, American slang for a bill of currency, e.g., a "Ten spot" is $10 * Spot, old Australian and New Zealand slang for Australian and New Zealand punting glossary#S, one hundred dollars * Spot date, a financial term * Spot market, a financial market in which financial instruments or commodities are traded for immediate delivery ** Spot price, a financial term for price of trade done today

Technology

* SPOT (satellite), Satellite Pour l'Observation de la Terre, Earth-observing satellite family * Single Point of Truth or SPOT, a principle aimed at reducing duplication in software engineering * Smart Personal Objects Technology or SPOT, a Microsoft initiative * SPOT Satellite Messenger *Stage lighting instrument#Spotlights, Spotlight, called spot for short * Spot, a four-legged canine-inspired robot made by Boston Dynamics#Spot, Boston Dynamics * Spot, a 3D test model of a cow

Other meanings

* Spot (professional wrestling), a pre-planned wrestling move or series of moves * SPOT (TSA program), or "Screening of Passengers by Observation Techniques", an airport security technique * Spot, American slang for a music venue or club * Spots (cannabis), a method of smoking cannabis, often called hotknifing in the United States * USS Spot, USS ''Spot'', an American submarine launched in 1944 and sold to Chile and renamed in 1962