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Creep, Creeps, CREEP, or Creeping may refer to:

Arts, entertainment, and media

Films

Gaming

  • "Creep", a carpet of bio-matter Zerg colonies produce in the StarCraft video game franchise
  • The Creeps!, a 2008 tower defense video game

Literature

Music

Groups

  • Creep (band), an American electronic music band
  • The Creeps, a 1980s Swedish band that won the Rockbjörnen prize in 1990
  • The Creeps, a 1960s South African band featuring David Kramer

Albums

Songs

Project management

  • Feature creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of features to software
  • Instruction creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of unnecessary instructions
  • Mission creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a mission
  • Scope creep, the gradual and unmanaged addition of additional tasks in a project

Science

  • Creep (deformation), the tendency of a solid material to slowly move or deform permanently under the influence of stresses
  • Creep, the advancing of a railway wheel more or less than is expected from rolling, without large-scale slip; see rail adhesion
    • Idle creep, the tendency of a car with an automatic transmission to roll without the brakes engaged or the gear set to neutral
  • Aseismic creep, a slow, steady movement along an earthquake fault
  • Downhill creep, the slow progression of soil and rock down a low-grade slope
  • Location creep, an erratic effect in real-time locating systems
  • Superfluid creep, the tendency for a superfluid to "crawl" up the walls of its container; see Superfluidity

Other

See also