Plural of spike
The word 'spikes' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it as a noun to refer to thin, pointed objects, like the points of a shoe, or as a verb to mean to rapidly increase or rise. Example Sentence: The stock market spiked sharply after the announcement.
The only problem is trying to do that at tracks in the UK... there's spikes come off people's shoes and stones and whatever else so you could end up getting injured.
Replied the long-hitting McIlroy, "If you got your swing speed over 100mph you might need spikes too... ;)" Golf historians may still be checking their archives, but so far the consensus is that Hogan and Nelson, Palmer and Nicklaus and Woods and Mickelson never had an exchange like this for millions around the world to instantly read, retweet and snicker.
He says "this is a global problem, as we recently saw with the spikes on the streets in London.
It is, as he said, appalling that mortality rates can be 16% higher on a Sunday, and it would surely be better – as he also suggested – if services were organised around spikes in demand, not weekend rotas for skeleton staff.
Despite being on track for a personal best with five laps to go, the teacher said he could feel his rivals running away from him and said it marked a good point to hang up his spikes.
"Why do some people still use those spikes," Poulter wrote, noting that he had switched to soft plastic spikes.
The British Athletics performance director Neil Black said: "It's a big brave decision for Phil, and whilst we're sad to see him hang up his spikes for now, he's had a fantastic career.
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