// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Advance say to its friend? "I'm a step ahead.

Advance commonly refers to:

• Advance, an offensive push in sports, games, thoughts, military combat, or sexual or romantic pursuits
• Advance payment for goods or services
• Advance against royalties, a payment to be offset against future royalty payments

Advance may also refer to:

Media

• Advance (newspaper), a Sudanese newspaper
• Advance Publications, an American media company headquartered in New York City
  • Advance Digital, part of Advance Local, owned by Advance Publications
  • Advance Newspapers, former company based in Hudsonville, Michigan, later bought by Advance Publications, defunct 2019
• Barrie Advance, a weekly newspaper serving Barrie, Ontario

Music

• Advance (album), a 1996 album by British techno act LFO
• Advance!, a jazz album by drummer Philly Joe Jones
• Advance/Mata Asa ga Kuru, song by Tokio

Organizations

• Advance (lobby group), a conservative political lobby group in Australia (formerly Advance Australia)
• Advance (trade union), a trade union based in the United Kingdom
• Advance New Zealand Party, abbreviated as Advance NZ or Advance, a political party active from 2020 to 2021
• Advance New Zealand (1995), a former political party in New Zealand
• Advance Thun SA, a Swiss paraglider manufacturer based in Thun
• Advance Together, abbreviated as Advance, a short-lived British political party
• Advance UK, a far-right political party in the United Kingdom

Places

Canada

• Advance, Ontario

United States

• Advance, California
• Advance, Indiana
• Flatwoods, Kentucky, originally known as Advance
• Advance, Michigan
• Advance, Missouri
• Advance, North Carolina
• Advance, Ohio
• Advance, Wisconsin
• Advance Township, North Dakota

Ships

• Advance (or A. D. Vance), a Confederate blockade runner (1863-1864)
• Advance (1872), a wooden Top sail schooner
• Advance (1874), a Composite Schooner
• Advance (1884), an Iron Steamer screw Tug
• Advance (1903), a diesel powered wooden carvel schooner
• Advance (shipwrecked 1933), a screw steamer
• USS Advance, several ships of the US Navy

Other uses

• Advance (English automobile), an English tricar
• Advance (Australian motorcycle), a built-to-order bike 1905–1906
• Advance (horse), a Thoroughbred horse
• Game Boy Advance, a 2001 Nintendo handheld
• Game Boy Advance SP, the 2003 successor
• Mario Party Advance, a 2005 video game
• Nilfisk-Advance, a brand of cleaning equipment

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Advance
• All pages with titles containing Advance
• Advancement (disambiguation)
• Ahead (disambiguation)
• Forward (disambiguation)
• Retreat (disambiguation)