Spa (disambiguation) explained

A spa is a therapeutic water treatment. Related uses include:

• Day spa
• Destination spa
• Mineral spa
• Spa town, a town noted for its spa

Spa or SPA may also refer to:

Places

• Spa, Belgium, a municipality in Belgium, namesake for the meanings mentioned above
• Spa, County Down, a village in Northern Ireland
• Spa, County Kerry, a village in Ireland
• Spa Creek, a tributary of the Severn River, Annapolis, Maryland, US
• South Pole–Aitken basin (SPA), an impact crater on the far side of the Moon

Art, entertainment, and media

• SPA (band), a 1990s British band
• Spa (Sirius XM), a satellite radio music channel
• Screen Producers Australia, film industry organization
• Sony Pictures Animation, an American animation studio
• Summer Performing Arts Company, Grand Forks, North Dakota, US

Brands, enterprises, and organizations

Politics

• Socialist Party of America
• Socialist Party of Australia
• Socialistische Partij Anders, a Flemish Social-Democratic Party (SP.A)
• Supreme People's Assembly, the parliament of North Korea

Other

• Spa (mineral water), a brand of Belgian mineral water
• Saudi Press Agency
• Schools of Planning and Architecture, in India
• Scottish Publishers Association
• Seychelles Port Authority
• Società per azioni, S.p.A., a type of public limited company in Italy
• Society for Popular Astronomy, UK
• Sudanese Professionals Association, Sudanese trade union and civic organisation

Computing and technology

• Secure Password Authentication
• Sense Plan Act, a robot control methodology
• Simple power analysis, a type of cryptographic attack
• Single-page application, a type of web application
• Software Publishers Association, later Software and Information Industry Association

Science

• Scintillation proximity assay, for biochemical development and screening
• Spathoglottis, an orchid genus

Other uses

• Società per azioni, a form of corporation in Italy
• S.P.A. (automobile), Società Piemontese Automobili, a car manufacturer (1908–1926)
• Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Informally Called "Spa"
• Spain, UNDP country code
• Special Protection Area, EU, for birds
• Spondyloarthropathy (SpA), any joint disease of the vertebral column
• Volvo Scalable Product Architecture platform, an automobile platform created by Volvo Cars
• Socrates, Plato and Aristotle (SPA), the traditional founders of Western philosophy
• Sales and Purchase agreement, or Purchase and sale agreement
• Special Power of Attorney, or Limited Power of Attorney

See also

• Hot tub
• Resort