Break

Break or Breaks or The Break may refer to:

Time off from duties

Recess (break), time in which a group of people is temporarily dismissed from its duties
Break (work), time off during a shift/recess
- Coffee break, a short mid-morning rest period in business
Annual leave (holiday/vacation), paid time off work

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

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

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

Break condition, in asynchronous serial communication
Break key, a special key on computer keyboards
break statement, a keyword in computer programming used to execute an early exit from a loop
Line break (computing), a special character signifying the end of a line of text
To break (or "crack") an encryption cipher, in cryptanalysis

Brake (carriage), a type of horse-drawn carriage used in the 19th and early 20th centuries
Break (locksmithing), a separation between pins of a lock
Breakover angle, a maximum possible supplementary angle of terrain
Paradelta Break, an Italian paraglider design

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 (play), a 1962 play by Philip Albright
The Break (1963 film), a drama starring Tony Britton
The Break (1995 film), an American tennis film
The Break, alternative name for the 1997 film A Further Gesture
The Break, a 2003 TV film featuring Kris Kristofferson
The Break, a short film shown at the 2016 Dublin International Film Festival
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
- The Breaks (TV series), a 2017 American drama and a continuation of the 2016 film
"Break", a 1995 episode of the British television series Bottom
Break (Transformers), a fictional character

Break (music), a percussion interlude or instrumental solo within a longer work of music
Breakbeat, a broad style of electronic or dance-oriented music

Big break (jargon), a circumstance which allows an actor or musician to "break into" the industry and achieve fame
Bone fracture, a medical condition in which there is a break in the continuity of the bone
Commercial break, in television and radio
Prison escape, the act of an inmate leaving prison through unofficial or illegal ways
Section break, in type setting
Break, an air combat maneuver; see Basic fighter maneuvers
Breaks, Virginia
Psychotic break
The Breaks, named for an American topography that appears to "break away" from the Missouri River, located in Upper Missouri River Breaks National Monument