• Spade
  Spade
  A spade is a tool designed primarily for the purpose of digging or removing earth. Early spades were made of riven wood. After the art of metalworking was discovered, spades were made with sharper tips of metal. Before the advent of metal spades manual labor was less efficient at moving earth,...
  
  , a digging and gardening tool
• SPADE
  SPADE
  SPADE is a free software multi-agent system platform developed in the Python programming language and based in the instant messaging XMPP technology...
  
  , a multi-agent system software tool
• An ethnic slur for a black person

Card games

• Spades
  Spades
  Spades is a partnership trick-taking card game devised in the United States in the 1930s, in which the object is for each pair or partnership to take at least the number of tricks they bid on before play began. Spades is a descendant of the Whist family of card games, which also includes Bridge,...
  
  , a trick-taking card game
• Spades (suit), one of the four French suits commonly used in playing cards

Coins

• Spade, an early form of currency in China.

People

• David Spade
  David Spade
  David Wayne Spade is an American actor, comedian and television personality who first became famous in the 1990s as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, and from 1997 until 2003 when he starred as Dennis Finch on Just Shoot Me!. He also starred as C.J...
  
  , an American actor
• Kate Spade
  Kate Spade
  Kate Brosnahan Spade is the co-founder and namesake of the designer brand, Kate Spade New York .- Early life and beginnings :...
  
  , namesake of the designer brand Kate Spade New York
• Dudley Spade
  Dudley Spade
  Dudley Spade is a politician from the U.S. state of Michigan. He has served as State Representative from the 57th district since 2004. He is a Democrat. His district includes almost all of Lenawee County...
  
  , a politician from the state of Michigan
• Mixmaster Spade
  Mixmaster Spade
  Mixmaster Spade was a hip hop artist. He died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident...
  
  , deceased hip hop pioneer

Fictional characters

• Sam Spade
  Sam Spade
  Sam Spade is a fictional character who is the protagonist of Dashiell Hammett's 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon and the various films and adaptations based on it, as well as in three lesser known short stories by Hammett....
  
  , a character in the book The Maltese Falcon
• Samantha Spade, Without a Trace TV character

Distinguish from

• spayed, the past tense form of the verb "to spay"