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:
“Better to sink in boundless deeps, than float on vulgar shoals; and give me, ye gods, an utter wreck, if wreck I do.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The old man had heard that there was a wreck and knew most of the particulars, but he said that he had not been up there since it happened. It was the wrecked weed that concerned him most ... and those bodies were to him but other weeds which the tide cast up, but which were of no use to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Perchance the time will come when we shall not be content to go back and forth upon a raft to some huge Homeric or Shakespearean Indiaman that lies upon the reef, but build a bark out of that wreck and others that are buried in the sands of this desolate island, and such new timber as may be required, in which to sail away to whole new worlds of light and life, where our friends are.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)