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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 (album), 2009 KMFDM studio album
- Blitz! (musical), by Lionel Bart based on The Blitz
- 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
- Blitzkrieg ("lightning war"), a military strategy developed by Nazi Germany
- Blitzy, a fictional dog character from Mona the Vampire
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