Blitz
Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to:
- Blitzkrieg, a rapid attack by combined forces, used by Germany in the Second World War
- The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War
- Blitz (gridiron football), a type of defensive tactic
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Computing
- Blitz (software), a cloud-based load-and performance-testing service
- Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language
- Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing
- BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College
- Blitz Research, a New Zealand software company
Film and television
- Blitz (film), a 2011 film starring Jason Statham
- Blitz (character), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from Road Rovers
- Blitz or Killing Cars, a 1986 Michael Verhoeven film
- Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon C.O.P.S.
- The Blitz, in the "Blitzgiving" episode of How I Met Your Mother
Games
- Blitz (game), a card game
- Blitz (video game), a game for the Commodore Vic-20
- Blitz: The League, a 2005 American football game series
- Blitz chess, fast chess in which each player is allotted less than ten minutes
- Blitz Games, a British computer games company
- Blitz, a playable character in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- World of Tanks Blitz, a mobile game based on the PC version (WoT) World of Tanks
Literature
- Blitz (British magazine), an influential British "style" magazine of the 1980s
- Blitz (Portuguese magazine), a Portuguese music magazine, started in 1984 as a newspaper
- Blitz (newspaper), Indian investigative newspaper, started in 1941 by Russi Karanjia
- Weekly Blitz, a weekly Bangladeshi newspaper
- Blitz (comics), a Flash-based Big Bang Comics hero
- Blitz, the alter-ego of George in the web comic Bob and George
Music
- Blitz (British band), a punk rock band
- Blitz (Brazilian band), a new-wave band from the 1980s
- Bobby Ellsworth or Blitz, American thrash metal musician
- Blitz (Étienne Daho album)
- Blitz (KMFDM album) (2009)
- The Blitz (Krokus album) (1984)
- The Blitz (Thebandwithnoname album) (2002)
- Blitz!, a musical by Lionel Bart
- "Blitz", a song by Audio Adrenaline from Some Kind of Zombie (1997)
Nightclubs
- Blitz Club, a techno nightclub in Munich, Germany
- Blitz, a 1980s night club in London frequented by the Blitz Kids
Sports
American football
- The Blitz (ESPNEWS), a TV show on ESPNEWS
- Blitz (mascot), the mascot of the Seattle Seahawks
- Bakersfield Blitz, a former arena football team
- Chicago Blitz, a United States Football League team in the 1980s
- London Blitz (American football), a London-based team
- Montreal Blitz, a women's team
- Syracuse Blitz, a former Professional Indoor Football League team
Other sports
- Blitz defence, a defensive technique used in rugby union
- SV Blitz Breslau, former German soccer team
- Blitz (company), a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix
Vehicles
- SMS Blitz, an Imperial German Navy light cruiser built in 1882
- Opel Blitz, a German lorry built by Opel
Other uses
- Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway
- Blitz (surname), a surname and list of people with the name
See also
- Utah Blitzz, former professional soccer team
- Blitzy, a fictional dog character from Mona the Vampire
- Bristol Blitz, the German bombing raids on Bristol, England in 1940 and 1941
- Hull Blitz, the German Second World War bombing campaign targeting Kingston upon Hull
- Rotterdam Blitz, the German bombing raid on Rotterdam, Netherlands in 1940
- World of Tanks Blitz, an online game
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