Break

• 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

• 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

• The Break (Giovanni novel), 1957, by José Giovanni
• The Break (Vermette novel), 2016, by Katherena Vermette
• The Breaks (novel), 1983, by Richard Price

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

• Break.com, a humor website