Blitz

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

In warfare

• 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

People

• Blitz (surname), a list of people
• Bobby Ellsworth, American thrash metal musician known as Blitz

Computing

• Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language
• BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College
• Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing
• Blitz (software), a cloud-based load-and performance-testing service (SaaS)

Video games

• World of Tanks Blitz, a mobile version of World of Tanks for tablets and smartphones
• Blitz (video game), a bombing game for the Commodore Vic-20
• Blitz: The League, a 2005 American football game series developed by Midway Games
• Cray Blitz, chess program for the Cray supercomputer
• Bejeweled Blitz
• Tetris Blitz

Sports

American football

• Blitz (gridiron football), a type of defensive maneuver
• Bakersfield Blitz, 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, former Professional Indoor Football League team
• The Blitz (ESPNEWS), a TV show on ESPNEWS
• Blitz (mascot), the mascot of the Seattle Seahawks

Other sports

• Blitz defence, a defensive technique used in rugby union
• Blitz, a Japanese tuning company which competes in the D1 Grand Prix
• SV Blitz Breslau, former German soccer team
• Utah Blitzz, former professional soccer team

Music

• Blitz (British band), a British punk rock band
• Blitz (Brazilian band), a new wave Brazilian band from the 1980s
• Blitz (KMFDM album), 2009
• Blitz (Étienne Daho album)
• Blitz! (musical), by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
• Blitz Club, a techno nightclub in Munich, Germany
• The Blitz (Krokus album), 1984
• The Blitz (Thebandwithnoname album), 2002

Toys and games

• Blitz chess, fast chess in which each player is allotted only five minutes
• Blitz (game), a card game
• Blitz, an American football themed Beanie Baby

Characters

• Blitz, the alter-ego of George in the web comic Bob and George
• Blitz (character), a fictional anthropomorphic doberman from the action/comedy cartoon Road Rovers
• Blitz, a robot dog from the cartoon C.O.P.S.
• Zorin Blitz, from the manga Hellsing
• Blitz (comics), a Flash-based Big Bang Comics hero
• Blitz, the villain in the 2011 film of the same name
• the Blitz, in the "Blitzgiving" episode of the TV show How I Met Your Mother
• Blitz, a playable character in the video game Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege

Companies

• Blitz Games, British computer games company
• Blitz Research, New Zealand software company

Other

• SMS Blitz (1882), an Imperial German Navy light cruiser
• Blitz (film), a 2011 film starring Jason Statham
• Blitz, alternative title of the 1986 Michael Verhoeven film Killing Cars
• Blitz, a 1980s night club in London (see Blitz Kids)
• Blitz (movement), a radical youth movement in Norway
• BLITZ, an influential British "style" magazine of the 1980s
• Blitz (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
• Opel Blitz, a German lorry built by Opel

See also

• 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
• Blitzy, a fictional dog character from Mona the Vampire