Blitz Explained
Blitz, German for "lightning", may refer to:
Military uses
- Blitzkrieg, blitz campaign, or blitz, a type of military campaign
- The Blitz, the German aerial campaign against Britain in the Second World War
- , an Imperial German Navy light cruiser built in 1882
Computing
- Blitz (software), a cloud-based load-and performance-testing service
- Blitz BASIC, a dialect of the BASIC programming language
- Blitz++, a C++ class library for scientific computing
- BlitzMail, the internal e-mail network at Dartmouth College
- Blitz Research, a New Zealand software company
Film and television
Games
- Blitz (game), a card game
- Blitz (video game), a VIC-20 game
- NFL Blitz, a series of American football video games featuring over-the-top action
- , a 2005 American football video game extension of the NFL Blitz series
- Blitz chess, fast chess in which each player is allotted from three to five minutes (as noted chess.com) but loosely defined as from one to ten minutes (see bullet chess and rapid chess for clarification)
- Blitz Games, a British computer games company
- Blitz, a playable character in Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
- World of Tanks Blitz, a mobile game based on the PC version (WoT) World of Tanks
Literature
Music
Nightclubs
- Blitz Club, a techno nightclub in Munich, Germany
- Blitz, a 1980s night club in London frequented by the Blitz Kids
Sports
American football
- Blitz (gridiron football), a type of defensive tactic
- The Blitz (ESPNEWS), a TV show on ESPNEWS
- Blitz (mascot), the mascot of the Seattle Seahawks
- Bakersfield Blitz, a former arena football team
- Chicago Blitz, a United States Football League team in the 1980s
- Chicago Blitz (indoor football), a defunct professional indoor football team
- Chicago Blitz (X League), an American women's gridiron football team
- London Blitz (American football), a London-based team
- Montreal Blitz, a women's team
- Syracuse Blitz, a former Professional Indoor Football League team
Other sports
Other uses
See also
