Wreck may refer to:
- Wreck, a ceremony of initiation into the 40 et 8 club
- Wreck (band), an American indie rock band
- A collision of an automobile, aircraft or other vehicle
- Shipwreck, the remains of a ship after a crisis at sea
- Receiver of Wreck, an official of the British government whose main task is to process incoming reports of wreck
- Rambling Wreck, a car that leads the Georgia Tech football team onto the field prior to every game in Bobby Dodd Stadium
- WREK (FM), a radio station at Georgia Tech, named after the car
- In ornithology, an event where large numbers of seabirds are driven inland due to adverse weather
Famous quotes containing the word wreck:
“My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don’t in the least know or care where our practically infinite energies come from or will bring us to.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)
“Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.”
—June Jordan (b. 1939)
“Crash on crash of the sea,
straining to wreck men, sea-boards, continents,
raging against the world, furious.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)