Crash

Crash or CRASH may refer to:

Common meanings

• Collision, an impact between two or more objects
• Crash (computing), a condition where a program ceases to respond
• Cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating
• Stock market crash, a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices
• Couch surfing, temporarily staying at another person's home
• Gate crashing, the act of entering an event without invitation

Culture

Film

• The Crash (1932 film), a drama starring Ruth Chatterton
• Crash (1974 film), a Norwegian drama directed by Rolf Clemens
• Crash!, a 1977 suspense drama starring José Ferrer and Sue Lyon
• Crash (1978 film), a made-for-TV docudrama starring William Shatner and Adrienne Barbeau
• Crash: The Mystery of Flight 1501, a 1990 made-for-TV film starring Cheryl Ladd
• Crash (1996 film), a drama directed by David Cronenberg
• Crash (2004 film), directed by Paul Haggis and winner of the 2005 Academy Award for Best Picture
• The Crash (2017 film), a thriller directed by Aram Rappaport

Television

• Crash (1984 TV series), a Danish science-fiction series
• Crash (2008 TV series), an American drama based on the 2004 film
• Crash (2009 TV series), an English-language Welsh medical drama series

Publications

• Crash (J. G. Ballard novel), the basis of the 1996 film
• Crash (Spinelli novel), by Jerry Spinelli, 1996)
• Crash (magazine), dedicated to the ZX Spectrum home computer and published from 1984–1991
• Crash Magazine, a French independent magazine
• Crash (genus), a genus of fossil bandicoots published in 2014
• Crash, a 1999 manga series by Erica Sakurazawa
• Crash! (manga), a 2007 manga series by Yuka Fujiwara

Performers

• Darby Crash (1958–1980), a punk rock musician
• Crash (drummer), a member of the Swedish hard rock band H.E.A.T
• Ray "Crash" Corrigan (1902–1976), an American actor
• Billy "Crash" Craddock (born 1939), a country music singer

Music

Bands

• Crash (South Korean band), a thrash metal band, who formed in 1991 from Seoul
• Crash (UK band), an indie rock band, from New York in the 1980s

Albums

• Crash (Billy "Crash" Craddock album) (1976)
• Crash (Dave Matthews Band album) (1996)
• Crash (Decyfer Down album) (2009)
• Crash (The Human League album) (1986)
• Crash! (album), by guitarist Kenny Burrell (1963)

Songs

Ordered alphabetically by performer

• "Crash" (Cavo song) (2009)
• "Crash" (Feeder song) (1997)
• "Crash" (Gwen Stefani song) (2006)
• "Crash" (The Primitives song) (1988)
• "Crash" (Royseven song) (2007)
• "Crash (Have Some Fun)", by TKA featuring Michelle Visage (1990)
• "Crash", from Nine Lives by Aerosmith
• "Crash", from Shape Shift with Me by Against Me!
• "Crash", from We've Come for You All by Anthrax
• "Crash", from No Mercy EP by B.A.P
• "Crash", a song from the 2018 album vertigo by EDEN
• "Crash", from The Return of East Atlanta Santa by Gucci Mane
• "Crash", from Millionaires by James
• "Crash", by Love Tractor
• "Crash", featuring Static-X by Mephisto Odyssey
• "Crash", from the album Methods of Mayhem by Methods of Mayhem
• "Crash!", by Propellerheads
• "Crash", from Screaming Bloody Murder by Sum 41
• "Crash" (Usher song) (2016)
• "CrasH", from CrasH Talk by ScHoolboy Q

Fictional characters

• Crash Bandicoot (character), the primary protagonist in the video game series of the same name
• Crash, in the video game Crash 'n' the Boys: Street Challenge
• Crash, in the video game Quake III Arena
• "Crash" Davis, protagonist of the film Bull Durham, played by Kevin Costner
• The titular puppet character in the series Crash & Bernstein
• Crash, the main character in the Ice Age film franchise

Video games

• Hot Wheels: Crash!, a video game released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows
• Crash: Mind over Mutant, a 2008 video game

Games

• Crash (card game), a British card game
• CRASH convention, a convention in the game of contract bridge

Sports

• Indy Crash, a women's full contact football team in the Women's Football Alliance
• Iowa City Crash, an American National Rugby League club

Athletes:

• "Crash", a nickname of American retired pole vaulter Toby Stevenson (born 1976)
• Crash Davis (1919-2001), American baseball player who inspired the name of the movie character
• "Crash", a nickname for Gerald Wallace, forward for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers
• Crash Holly and Crash, ring names of American professional wrestler Mike Lockwood (1971–2003)

Other uses

• HMS Crash, British Royal Navy vessels
• A group of rhinoceroses
• Crash, a plain linen fabric used for towels
• Crash (graffiti artist), American artist John Matos (born 1961)
• Sugar crash, a supposed sense of fatigue after consuming a large number of carbohydrates
• Slang for comedown, the negative effect of a drug
• Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, a unit of the Los Angeles Police Department
• Crash cymbal, used in occasional drumming accents

See also

• "Crashed", a song by Daughtry
• Crashing (disambiguation)
• The Crash (disambiguation)
• Crasher, several fictional characters in the Gobots toyline and cartoon, and Transformers series
• All pages with titles containing Crash
• All pages with titles containing The Crash