Needle

Needle or Needles may refer to:

Sewing and needlework

 * Sewing needle, long slender object with a pointed tip
 * Needle guard, piece of a sewing machine that prevents the user from sewing their finger
 * Needlework, a term for textile arts using needles
 * Needlepoint, a form of embroidery
 * Knitting needle, long stick or rod used as a tool in the manufacture of hand knitted fabric
 * Needle lace, handmade lace
 * Upholstery needle, needle used for upholstery

Body manipulation

 * Body piercing needle, a needle used for body piercing
 * Tattoo needle, a needle used to tattoo skin
 * Needle play, a form of play piercing

Botany

 * Needle Bush, a plant of the genus Acacia
 * Needle Palm, the sole member of the genus Rhapidophyllum in the palm family Arecaceae
 * Pine needle, adult leaf of a pine

Geography and geology

 * Needles (Black Hills), granite pillars located in South Dakota
 * Needles, California, a small city in the United States
 * Needle Mountains (Colorado), subrange of the San Juan Mountains in the southwestern Colorado
 * The Needles, geologic formation off the Isle of Wight
 * The Needles, the southeast district of Canyonlands National Park
 * Cleopatra's Needle, trio of obelisks in London, Paris, and New York City
 * Crestone Needle, one of the "fourteeners" (mountains of 14,000+ feet) of Colorado
 * Space Needle, landmark of Seattle

Mathematics

 * Buffon's needle, problem in probability
 * Kakeya needle problem, problem in mathematics

Medicine

 * Acupuncture needle, needle used for acupuncture
 * Hypodermic needle, hollow needle commonly used with a syringe to inject substances into the body
 * Needle exchange program, exchange program for hypodermic needles
 * Needle remover, device that physically removes a needle from a syringe
 * Pins and needles or paresthesia, sensation of tingling, pricking, or numbness of a person's skin with no apparent long-term physical effect
 * Surgical needle, needle with holes or eyes which are supplied to the hospital separate from their suture thread
 * Tuohy needle, hollow needle suitable for inserting epidural catheters

Music

 * Gramophone needle, needle used to play back sound on gramophone records
 * Needle drop, technique used by DJs
 * Needle time, a 1960s attempt to limit music played over radio in the UK
 * The Needles, a four-piece band from Aberdeen in the late 1990s
 * Sleep on Needles, 2002 album by Sondre Lerche
 * "Needle in the Hay", a song from the 1995 album Elliott Smith by Elliott Smith
 * "Needle", a song from the 1991 album All for One by The Screaming Jets

Sports

 * Needle, an inverted cheerleading stunt: see List of cheerleading stunts

Zoology

 * Needle dogfish, small, little-known deepwater shark
 * Needles (horse), American Hall of Fame Champion Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Needle-clawed bushbaby, two species in the genus Euoticus

People named Needle or Needles

 * Dan Needles, playwright behind the popular Wingfield series which has played across Canada for many years
 * Edward Needles Hallowell, United States Army officer
 * Jimmy Needles, American basketball coach best known for being the United States' first Olympic basketball coach
 * Nadel, German surname meaning needle

Fictional people

 * Jimmy Needles, character in the video game TimeSplitters 2
 * Needle (comics), Marvel Comics supervillain
 * Douglas J. Needles from Back to the Future Part II and Part III

Other

 * 3 Needles, 2005 dramatic film which was directed by Thom Fitzgerald
 * Eye of a needle, aphorism used in the religious texts of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
 * Needle dam, a weir designed to maintain the level or flow of a river through the use of thin "needles" of wood
 * Needle valve, a type of valve having a small orifice and a threaded, needle-like plunger
 * A measuring needle, an indicator on a measuring instrument or dial (measurement)
 * "The Needler", a weapon used by the Covenant in Bungie's Halo: Combat Evolved