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Break or Breaks or The Break may refer to:
Time off from duties
Time off from school
Holiday break, a U.S. term for various
school holidays
Christmas break or Winter break , a break in the winter, typically around Christmas and New Years
Spring break , a recess in early spring at universities and schools in various countries in the northern hemisphere
Summer break , a typical long break in the summertime
People
Ted Breaks (1919–2000), English professional footballer
Danny Breaks (active 1990s–), British drum and bass DJ, record producer and record label owner
Jim Breaks (1940–2023), English professional wrestler
Sport
Break , the first shot meant to break the balls in cue sports, also a series of shots in snooker
Breaking ball , a pitch that does not travel straight like a fastball as it approaches the batter
Surf break , place where a wave collapses into surf
Horse breaking , the process of training a horse to be ridden
Break (tennis) , to win a tennis game as the receiving player or team, thereby breaking serve
Technology
Computing
Other technologies
Arts and media
Books
Film, television and theatre
To
break character (or "corpse"), to lose composure during comedic scenes
Break (2008 film) , an American action film
Break (2014 film) , also known as Nature Law
Break (2020 film) , a British independent film
The Break (1995 film) , an American tennis film
The Break (1963 film) , a drama starring Tony Britton
The Break (2003 film) , a TV film featuring
Kris Kristofferson
The Break , alternative name for
A Further Gesture , a 1997 film
The Break (TV series) , a 2016 Belgian crime drama, also known as La Trêve
The Break with Michelle Wolf , a 2018 Netflix series
The Breaks (1999 film) , an American comedy
The Breaks (2016 film) , an American television hip-hop drama
"Break" (Bottom ) , a British television episode
Break (Transformers) , a fictional character
The Break , a short film shown at the 2016
Dublin International Film Festival
The Break (play) , a 1962 play by Philip Albright
Music
Break (music) , a percussion interlude or instrumental solo within a longer work of music
Breakbeat , a broad style of electronic or dance-oriented music
Albums
Songs
"Break", 1972, by
Aphrodite's Child
"The Breaks" (song) , 1980, by Kurtis Blow
"Break" (1984), by
Play Dead
"Break" (1996), by Staind from the album
Tormented
"Break" (1998), by Fugazi from the album
End Hits
"Break" (2002), by Jurassic 5 from the album
Power in Numbers
"Break" (2006), by Republic of Loose from the album
Aaagh!
"Break" (2006), by
The Cinematics
"Break" (2008), by Alanis Morissette from the album
Flavors of Entanglement
"Break" (Three Days Grace song) (2009)
"Break" (2013), by Hostyle Gospel from the album
Desperation
"Break" (2015), by Katherine McPhee from the album
Hysteria
"Break" (2015), by No Devotion from the album
Permanence
"Break" (Kero Kero Bonito song) , 2016
Other media
Other uses
See also
Topics referred to by the same term