Blitz

Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to:

Military uses

• Blitzkrieg, blitz campaign, or blitz, a type of military campaign
• The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War
• SMS Blitz, an Imperial German Navy light cruiser built in 1882

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 (2011 film), a film starring Jason Statham
• Blitz (upcoming film), an upcoming World War II-themed historical drama film
• Blitz or Killing Cars, a 1986 Michael Verhoeven film
• Blitz, a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from Road Rovers
• 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 VIC-20 game
• 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 (Big Bang Comics), a Flash-based Big Bang Comics hero
• Blitz (Marvel Comics)
• 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) (2017)
• 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

• Blitz (gridiron football), a type of defensive tactic
• 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
• Chicago Blitz (indoor football), a defunct professional indoor football team
• Chicago Blitz (X League), an American women's gridiron football team
• 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, a defunct German association football team
• Blitz (company), a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix

Other uses

• Blitz (surname), a surname and list of people with the name
• Opel Blitz, various German lorries built by Opel from 1930 to 1975
• Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway
• Blitz campaign, or blitz, a type of marketing campaign

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Blitz
• All pages with titles containing Blitz
• Blitzkrieg (disambiguation)
• Blitzer (disambiguation)
• Blits (disambiguation)
• 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