Escape

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Escape may refer to:

• Escape (hold), a maneuver used to exit a wrestling or grappling hold
• Escapism, mental diversion by means of entertainment or recreation
• Escapology, the study and practice of escaping from physical restraints
• Prison escape, the act of breaking out of prison

In literature:

• ESCAPE, an autobiographical book by David McMillan
• Escape (the CYOA gamebook), a Choose Your Own Adventure book
• Escape (book) about a woman leaving the FLDS religion.
• Escape Magazine, a British comic strip magazine published between 1983 and 1989

In radio, film and television:

• Escape (1930 film), featuring Gerald du Maurier and Edna Best
• Escape (1940 film), starring Robert Taylor and Norma Shearer
• Escape (1948 film), a remake of the 1940 film, with Rex Harrison and Peggy Cummins
• Escape, the video title of the 1970 film The McKenzie Break
• Escape (1971 film), a made-for-television movie
• Escape (1987 film), BBC film starring Edita Brychta
• Escape (radio program), a radio drama series on CBS, a highly-regarded companion to the network's longer-running Suspense anthology series
• Escape (XM), a music channel on XM Satellite Radio

In computers:

• Escape key, the Esc key on a computer keyboard
• Escape sequence, a series of characters used to trigger some sort of command state in computers
• Escape character, a single character which in a sequence of characters signifies that what is to follow takes an alternative interpretation
• escape(), a JavaScript function to percent-encode a string (though encodeURIComponent() and encodeURI() are preferable)

In music:

• Escape (Journey album), a 1981 album by Journey
  • Escape, a Journey tribute band [1]
• "Escape" (Rupert Holmes song), a 1979 hit for Rupert Holmes, later known as "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"
• Escape (Whodini album), a 1984 album by Whodini
• Escape (Enrique Iglesias album), a 2001 album by Enrique Iglesias
  • "Escape" (Enrique Iglesias song), a single by Enrique Iglesias
• Escape (Ram-Zet album), a 2002 album by Ram-Zet
• "Escape", a song from Metallica's 1984 album Ride the Lightning
• "Escape", a song by Hoobastank from their album The Reason
• "Escape", a song by Muse from their first album Showbiz and first EP Muse
• "Escape" (Craig Armstrong song), a 1999 song by Craig Armstrong
• Ska-P, a Spanish ska punk group
• Escape, a 2007 album by Brandy
• Escaping, a 1989 single by Margaret Urlich

Other:

• Ford Escape, a small Sport Utility Vehicle
• Escape (cologne), a scented cologne made by Calvin Klein
• Escape, Inc., a subsidiary of Japanese game developer Square responsible for Driving Emotion Type-S
• Escape (later renamed Westone), a Japanese game developer responsible for Wonder Boy