Breaking
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Breaking or breakin' may refer to:
Physical damage
- Fracture, the separation of an object into two or more pieces under stress
- Breaking (martial arts), a martial arts skill
- Ship breaking, a type of ship disposal
- Structural integrity and failure, in engineered systems
Arts and entertainment
- Breaking (dancing) (or b-boying), a street dance style
- Breakin', a 1984 movie
- Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo, a sequel
- "Breakin'" (song) from The Music's Welcome to the North
- "Breaking" (song), by the band Anberlin
- "Breaking" (album), by American singer-songwriter Brian Larsen
- "Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us", a song by Ollie & Jerry from the Breakin' soundtrack
- Sequence breaking, in computer and video gaming
- Breaking Benjamin, a post-grunge rock band
Other uses
- Horse breaking, in training of horses
- Housebreaking, the process of training a domesticated animal to excrete outdoors, or in a designated indoor area
- Sabbath breaking, a failure to observe the Biblical Sabbath, or an end of observation at the end of the Sabbath
- Spring breaking, the act of vacationing on spring break
- Strike breaking, action by a company to break up a labor strike
- Voice break, a boy's voice deepening at puberty
- Vowel breaking, a historical linguistics term
- Breaking news, a news item that interrupts scheduled programming or other news reporting
- Burglary, or "breaking and entering"