Breakaway

Breakaway or Break Away may refer to:

Music

Albums

• Breakaway (Art Garfunkel album), or the title song, "Break Away" (see below)
• Breakaway (Gallagher and Lyle album), or the title song (see below)
• Breakaway (Kelly Clarkson album), or the title song (see below)
• Breakaway (Kris Kristofferson album)
• Breakaway, an album 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)
• "Breakaway" (Irma Thomas song), notably covered by Tracey Ullman
• "Breakaway" (Kelly Clarkson song)
• "Breakaway", by Basement Jaxx from Rooty
• "Breakaway", by Big Pig, used in the opening sequence of the film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
• "Breakaway", by The Springfields
• "Break Away", by Staind from The Illusion of Progress
• "Break Away", by Sturm und Drang from Rock 'n Roll Children
• "Break Away", by Tokio Hotel from Scream
• "Breakaway", by Tsunami Bomb from Mayhem on the High Seas
• "Breakaway", by ZZ Top from Antenna

Other

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

Film and television

• Breakaway (1955 film), a British film
• Breakaway (1990 film), a film featuring Deborah Kara Unger
• Breakaway (2011 film), a Canadian film
• "Breakaway" (Space: 1999), the opening episode of the British TV series Space: 1999
• Breakaway PPV, a Canadian pay-per-view television provider
• Breakaway (TV series), an English TV series written by Francis Durbridge

Other media and performing arts

• A break away!, 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
• A type of theatrical property

Sports and games

• Breakaway (ice hockey), a situation in which there are no defenders (except for the goaltender) between an attacking player and the goal
• Breakaway (FIRST), the game in the 2010 FIRST Robotics Competition
• Breakaway (rugby union) or flanker, a position in rugby union
• Breakaway rim, a type of basketball hoop
• Breakaway roping, a rodeo event
• In cycling, a group of riders detaching themselves from the front of the peloton

Other uses

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

See also

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