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A snake is an elongated, legless, predatory reptile.

Snake or Snakes may also refer to:

Devices

• Bore snake, a tool to clean guns
• Plumber's snake
• Snake cable

Games and toys

• Snake (video game genre)
  • Snake (1998 video game), a game included on Nokia cellphones
  • Snakes (N-Gage game)
• S.N.A.K.E., a G.I. Joe accessory
• Mehen (game), an ancient Egyptian board game depicting a snake

Music

Performers

• The Snakes, a British-Norwegian hard rock band
• "Snake", Denis Bélanger (born 1960), Canadian vocalist of the heavy metal band Voivod
• "Snake", Axana Ceulemans, member of the 1990s Belgian girl group Def Dames Dope
• Mark "Snake" Luckhurst (born 1961), British bass guitarist and a founding member of the hard rock band Thunder
• Dave "The Snake" Sabo (born 1964), American guitarist in the heavy metal band Skid Row
• DJ Snake, French record producer and DJ

Albums

• Snake (album), by Exuma, 1972
• The Snake (Shane MacGowan album), 1994
• The Snake (Wildbirds & Peacedrums album), 2008
• The Snake, a Harvey Mandel album

Songs

• "Snake" (R. Kelly song), 2003
• Snake (Yorushika song), 2025
• "Snake", by Muddy Waters
• "Snake", by PJ Harvey from Rid of Me, 1993
• "Snake", by G-Unit
• "Snake", by Ronnie Lane
• "Snake", by King Curtis, 2000
• The Snake (song), 1960s song recorded by Oscar Brown and by Al Wilson
• "The Snake", by Joe Satriani on the album Not of This Earth
• "The Snake", by Johnny Rivers on the album ...And I Know You Wanna Dance
• "Snakes", by No Doubt on the album The Beacon Street Collection
• "Snakes", by Voltaire on the album The Devil's Bris
• "Snakes", by Papa Roach on the album Infest
• "Snakes", by Six Feet Under on the album True Carnage
• "Snakes", by Bastille on the album Wild World
• "Snakes", by Prodigy on the album Hegelian Dialectic
• "Snakes", by Joey Badass on the album 1999

Places

• Snake Creek (disambiguation)
• Snake Hill, in the U.S. state of New Jersey
• Snake Island (disambiguation)
• Snake River (disambiguation)

People

• Snake Indians, Native Americans
• Reuben Snake (1937–1993), Native American activist, educator, spiritual leader, and tribal leader
• Snake Shyam (born 1967), Indian wildlife conservationist
• The Snake (nickname), various people nicknamed either The Snake or Snake
• "The Snake", ring name of Jake Roberts (born 1955), American professional wrestler
• Snake Williams, a professional wrestler from All-Star Wrestling

Fictional characters

• Snake Plissken, protagonist of the films Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.
• a nickname of John Clark, in Tom Clancy novels and film adaptations
• Snake Jailbird, a Simpsons character
• Archie "Snake" Simpson, a Degrassi character
• Snakes, one of two time traveling warring factions in The Big Time, a science fiction novel by Fritz Leiber
• Snake, a character from the Zero Escape series of visual novels
• Snake, a Black Butler character
• Snake, a The Karate Kid Part III character
• Snake, a The Powerpuff Girls character
• Snake, a Snake Tales character
• Snakes, a member of the Union in Marvel Comics
• Snake, a Vinland Saga character
• Snake, any of several characters in the Metal Gear video game series
  • Solid Snake
  • Liquid Snake
  • Naked Snake, A.K.A. Big Boss
  • Venom Snake, A.K.A. Punished Snake

Sports teams

• Aberdare RFC, a rugby union club based in Aberdare, Wales, United Kingdom
• Arizona Diamondbacks, a Major League Baseball team based in Phoenix, Arizona, United States
• Columbus Cottonmouths, an ice hockey team based in Columbus, Georgia, United States
• Lugano Snakes, former name of the Lugano Tigers, a Swiss basketball club

In the military

• HMS Snake, several Royal Navy ships
• a nickname of the Bell AH-1 Cobra attack helicopter
• nickname of a variant of the Mark 81 bomb

Literature

• "Snake", a 1921 poem by D. H. Lawrence
• The Snake (Dagerman novel) (Swedish: Ormen), a 1945 novel by Stig Dagerman
• The Snake (Spillane novel), a 1964 novel by Mickey Spillane
• Snake, a 1975 novel by James H. McClure
• Snake!, a 1976 novel by Naomi Mitchison
• The Snake, a 1978 novel by Morton Freedgood
• Snakes, a 1986 novel by Guy N. Smith
• Snake, a 1991 novel in the Degrassi Classic series of novels by Catherine Dunphy
• Snake, a 1996 novel by Kate Jennings
• The Snake, a 1997 novel by Suhayl Saadi, writing as Melanie Desmoulins
• Snake, a 2005 novel by Jeff Stone, the third volume in The Five Ancestors series
• Snakes, a book by Indian science writer Sukanya Datta

Other uses

• Snake (computer vision)
• Snake (zodiac)
• The Snake (TV series), a 2025 reality competition series
• "Snakes" (CSI), an episode of Season 5 of the television series CSI
• Snake, a large sculpture created by Richard Serra
• Snake Kung Fu
• Snake, nickname of the first of two NZR B class (1874) steam locomotives
• Snake Projection, a map projection for linear projects
• The Snake (film), a 2026 Canadian comedy film

See also

• Rubik's Snake, a puzzle toy