Breaking may refer to:
- Breaking (martial arts), a martial arts skill
- Breaking (dancing) (or b-boying), a street dance style
- Breaking Bad - TV series
- Breaking Benjamin - a post grunge rock band
- Vowel breaking, a historical linguistics term
- Breakin', a 1984 movie
- "Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us", a song by Ollie & Jerry from the Breakin' soundtrack
- Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo
- "Breakin'" (song) from The Music's Welcome to the North
- "Breaking" (song), a song by the band Anberlin off their album New Surrender
- "Breaking" (album), an album by American singer-songwriter Brian Larsen
- Horse breaking
- Housebreaking
- Sabbath breaking
- Supersymmetry breaking
- Soft SUSY breaking
- Sequence breaking
- Ship breaking
- Strike breaking
- Breaking news
Breaking may also be used for:
- Spring breaking, the act of vacationing on spring break
- Use of break (music)
Famous quotes containing the word breaking:
“What’s breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?”
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)
“The winter owl banked just in time to pass
And save herself from breaking window glass.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.”
—Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)