Breakout

Breakout or Break Out may refer to:

In film, television and gaming:

• Breakout (video game) is an influential 1976 arcade game by Atari, and later home versions
  • Breakout clone, a video game with gameplay similar to the original Breakout
• Breakout character—a character in a television series who starts in a supporting role but evolves into a more central character, usually through popularity with the audience.
• Breakthrough role, also known as a "breakout role"
• "Breakout" (Joe 90), a 1969 episode of Joe 90
• Breakout (1959 film), a British drama film
• Breakout (1975 film), a film starring Charles Bronson and Robert Duvall
• Break Out (film), a 2002 South Korean film
• Breakout (TV series), a Singaporean TV drama produced by MediaCorp Channel 8
• Breakout (2010 TV series), a National Geographic Channel production dramatizing real life prison breakouts
• "Breakout" (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes), the first episode of the animated TV series, The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes

In music:

• Breakout (band), a Polish blues/rock band
• Breakout (Spyro Gyra album), 1986
• Breakout (Miley Cyrus album)
  • "Breakout" (Miley Cyrus song), 2008
• Break Out (Pointer Sisters album), 1983
• Break Out (Soulive album), 2005
• "Breakout" (Foo Fighters song), 2000
• "Breakout" (Swing Out Sister song), 1986
• "Breakout",a song by Black Sabbath from Never Say Die!
• "Breakout", a song by Sean Paul from The Trinity (album)
• "Breakout", a song by Bon Jovi from Bon Jovi (album)
• "Breakout", a song by Ratt from Ratt (album)
• "BREAK OUT!", a 1996 single from Nanase Aikawa
• "Break Out!", a 2010 Japanese single by Tohoshinki
• "Breakout", a song from the first act of Lord of the Dance (musical)
• "Breakout", a song by Margaret Durante from Shake It Up: Break It Down soundtrack

In electronics:

• Breakout board, hardware that allows hand-access to densely-spaced pins on a microchip
• Breakout box, an electrical device that separates individual signal paths in a multi-conductor input connector into separate connectors

In slang:

• Breakout, slang for a prison escape
• Breakout, a North American slang term for Acne vulgaris

In other uses:

• Breakout (military), a military operation to end a situation of encirclement or siege
• Breakout (technical analysis), when prices pass through, and stay through an area of support or resistance