Breakaway

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Breakaway or Break Away may refer to:

Arts and performing arts

• A breakaway!, an 1891 painting by Australian artist Tom Roberts
• Breakaway (dance), a 1920s dance style
• BreakAway Games, an American video game developer
• Breakaway (radio programme), a British travel programme on BBC Radio 4
• Breakaway (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe
• Breakaway object, a type of theatrical property

Film and television

• Breakaway (1955 film), a British film
• Breakaway (1990 film), an Australian film featuring Deborah Kara Unger
• Breakaway (1996 film), an American film featuring Tonya Harding
• Breakaway (2003 film), a film starring Dean Cain
• Breakaway (2011 film), a Canadian film
• Breakaway (game show), a British game show presented by Nick Hancock
• "Breakaway" (Space: 1999), the opening episode of the British TV series Space: 1999
• Breakaway (TV series), an English TV series written by Francis Durbridge
• Breakaway PPV, a Canadian pay-per-view television provider

Sports and games

• Breakaway (2010 video game), a soccer video game
• Breakaway (cycling), a cycling term for a single rider or group of riders detaching from the peloton to advance their position in front of it
• Breakaway (FIRST), the game in the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition
• Breakaway (ice hockey), a situation in which there are no defenders (except for the goaltender) between an attacking player and the goal
• Breakaway (rugby union) or flanker, a position in rugby union
• Breakaway (upcoming video game), a video game produced by Amazon Game Studios
• Breakaway rim, a type of basketball hoop
• Breakaway roping, a rodeo event

Other uses

• Breakaway (biscuit), a chocolate bar produced by Nestlé
• Breakaway friction, or stiction, the threshold of force required to overcome static cohesion

Music

Albums

• Breakaway (Art Garfunkel album), and the title song, "Break Away" (see below)
• Breakaway (Dark Horse Flyer album)
• Breakaway (First Choice album)
• Breakaway (Gallagher and Lyle album), and the title song (see below)
• Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson album), and the title song (see below)
• Breakaway (Kris Kristofferson album)
• Breakaway, by the Pasadena Roof Orchestra

Songs

• "Break Away" (Art Garfunkel song), also recorded by its writers, Gallagher and Lyle
• "Break Away" (The Beach Boys song)
• "Breakaway" (Donna Summer song)
• "Break Away" (Gail Davies song)
• "Breakaway" (Irma Thomas song), notably covered by Tracey Ullman
• "Break Away" (Ivy Quainoo song), covered in 2013 by Celine Dion as "Breakaway"
• "Breakaway" (Kelly Clarkson song)
• "Break Away (from That Boy)", a 1965 song by The Newbeats
• "Breakaway", by Alan Parsons, from the album Try Anything Once
• "Breakaway", by Basement Jaxx, from the album Rooty
• "Breakaway", by Big Pig, used in the opening sequence of the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• "Breakaway", by Bruce Springsteen, from the album The Promise
• "Breakaway", by Candlebox, from the album Happy Pills
• "Breakaway", by The Cars, from the album Why Can't I Have You
• "Breakaway", by Con Conrad, Archie Gottler, and Sidney D. Mitchell, originally from the film Fox Movietone Follies of 1929
• "Breakaway", by George Ezra, from the album Wanted on Voyage
• "Break Away", by Staind, from the album The Illusion of Progress
• "Break Away", by Sturm und Drang, from the album Rock 'n Roll Children
• "Break Away", by Subdigitals, used in the end credits of the show Code Lyoko
• "Breakaway", by Tinchy Stryder, from the album Star in the Hood
• "Break Away", by Tokio Hotel, from the album Scream
• "Breakaway", by ZZ Top, from the album Antenna

Other

• The Breakaways, an English female vocal trio
• Breakaway music, a U.S. Naval tradition

See also

• Breaking Away (disambiguation)
• Norwegian Breakaway
• Crevasse wall breakaway, in glaciology, an informal classification that can result from ice calving
• Secession