Daddy longlegs

Daddy longlegs (or Daddy Long Legs, Granddaddy longlegs, Daddy longleggers, etc.) may refer to:

Arthropods: Crane fly (Tipulidae) (the most usual sense in U.K. English), an insect
Harvestman (Opiliones) (in North American English and U.K. English), an arachnid, but not a spider
Cellar spider (Pholcidae) (especially in Australian/New Zealand English, but also North American English and U.K English), a true spider
Especially applied to Pholcus phalangioides

Fiction: Daddy-Long-Legs (1912 novel), a children's novel written by Jean Webster. This has been the basis for numerous films:
Daddy-Long-Legs (1919 film), starring Mary Pickford
Daddy Long Legs (1931 film), a musical starring Janet Gaynor and Warner Baxter
Daddy Long Legs (Vadertje Langbeen), a 1938 Dutch film
Daddy Long Legs (1955 film), a musical by 20th Century Fox
My Daddy Long Legs (Watashi no Ashinaga Ojisan), an animated Japanese television serial produced by Nippon Animation
Daddy-Long-Legs (2005 film), a Korean film

Music: Daddy Long Legs, the leader of Wolfpac, also one of the original lineup of The Bloodhound Gang
Daddy Longlegs (band), a British band that recorded for Vertigo Records.
Daddy Longlegs (album), 2005 album from folk singer John Craigie

Other: Daddy Long Legs, nickname of Pioneer, the car on the former Brighton and Rottingdean Seashore Electric Railway

Translation

The phrase "Daddy longlegs" occurs as such in the following languages: English, German.

Translation(s) in other languages: Persian: بابا لنگ‌دراز, Italian: Daddy Long Legs, Hebrew: אבא ארך רגליים, Simple English: Daddy Longlegs.