Crash Explained

Crash or CRASH may refer to:

Common meanings

• Collision, an impact between two or more objects
• Crash (computing), a condition where a program is abruptly forcibly terminated for performing an illegal operation.
• Cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating
• Couch surfing, temporarily staying at another person's home
• Gate crashing, the act of entering an event without invitation
• Stock market crash, a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices
• Traffic collision, a vehicle hitting another object

Arts and entertainment

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
• , 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 (American TV series), an American drama based on the 2004 film
• Crash (Danish TV series), a Danish science-fiction series
• Crash (South Korean TV series), a South Korean comedy crime investigative series
• Crash (Welsh TV series), an English-language Welsh medical drama series
• Crashh, a 2021 Indian web series
• Çarpışma, a 2018-19 Turkish TV series

Publications

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

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 (Kehlani album) (2024)
• Crash! (album), by guitarist Kenny Burrell (1963)
• Crash (Charli XCX album) (2022)

Songs

• "Crash" (Cavo song) (2009)
• "Crash" (Feeder song) (1997)
• "Crash" (The Primitives song) (1988)
• "Crash" (Royseven song) (2007)
• "Crash" (Gwen Stefani song) (2006)
• "Crash" (Have Some Fun), by TKA featuring Michelle Visage (1990)
• "Crash" (Usher song) (2016)
• "Crash", by Baboon from Something Good Is Going to Happen to You, 2002
• "Crash" by Delta Goodrem on her album Bridge Over Troubled Dreams 2021
• "Crash", by Shayne Ward from Obsession, 2010
• "Crash", by Nicola Roberts from Cinderella's Eyes, 2011
• "Crash!", by Propellerheads from Extended Play, 1998

Fictional characters

• Crash, a prehistoric opossum character in the Ice Age franchise
  • Crash, an anthropomorphic puppet and main character in the Disney XD sitcom Crash & Bernstein Crash Bandicoot (character), the primary protagonist in the video game series of the same name

Video games

• Burnout Crash!, a spin-off of the Burnout series
• Crash Bandicoot, a series of adventure video games
  • Crash Bandicoot (video game), the first game of the series
• , a video game released in 1999 for Microsoft Windows

Card games

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

People

• Crash (graffiti artist), American artist John Matos (born 1961)
• Ray "Crash" Corrigan (1902–1976), American actor
• Billy "Crash" Craddock (born 1939), country music singer
• Darby Crash (1958–1980), punk rock musician
• Crash Davis (1919–2001), American baseball player who inspired the name of the movie character
• Crash Holly and Crash, ring names of American professional wrestler Mike Lockwood (1971–2003)

Sports teams

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

Other uses

• Crash (genus), a genus of fossil bandicoots published in 2014
• Crash cymbal, used in occasional drumming accents
• HMS Crash, British Royal Navy vessels
• Sugar crash, a supposed sense of fatigue after consuming a large number of carbohydrates
• Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums (CRASH), a unit of the Los Angeles Police Department
• Crash, (herd) of rhinoceroses
• Crash (fabric), a plain linen fabric used for towels
• Crash, slang for a drug comedown

See also

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