An avalanche is a cascade of snow down a slope.

Avalanche may also refer to:

Places

  • Avalanche, Wisconsin, unincorporated community, United States
  • Avalanche Lake (disambiguation)
  • Avalanche Peak (disambiguation)
  • Mount Avalanche, a mountain in New Zealand

Technology

  • Avalanche (blockchain platform), a decentralized, open-source blockchain with smart contract functionality.
  • Avalanche (P2P), a proposed peer-to-peer network
  • Avalanche (phishing group), a criminal syndicate which performs phishing attacks
  • Avalanche breakdown, a form of electric current multiplication
  • Avalanche diode
  • Avalanche effect, a concept in cryptography and hashing
  • Avalanche photodiode, a highly sensitive semiconductor device that converts an optical signal into an electrical signal
  • Electron avalanche, a process similar to an avalanche breakdown, occurring without connection between two electrodes

Film and television

  • Avalanche (1923 film), an Austrian film
  • Avalanche (1928 film), an American silent western film
  • Avalanche (1946 film), an American film directed by Irving Allen
  • Avalanche (1951 film), a French film
  • Avalanche (1952 film), a Japanese film directed by Kaneto Shindō
  • Avalanche (1969 film), a British film
  • Avalanche (1978 film), an American disaster film with Rock Hudson and Mia Farrow
  • Avalanche (1994 film), a Canadian film
  • Avalanche (1999 film), an American film directed by Steve Kroschel
  • The Avalanche (1919 film), an American film
  • The Avalanche (1946 film), a Czech film
  • "Avalanche" (Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons), a 1967 episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
  • Avalanche (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
  • Avalanche Releasing and Avalanche Home Entertainment, distribution labels of Cinépix

Music

  • Avalanche (band), a 1980s Norwegian disco group
  • The Avalanches, an Australian electronic music group

Albums

  • Avalanche (EP), a 2000 EP by Echo & the Bunnymen
  • Avalanche (Thea Gilmore album), 2003
  • Avalanche (Matthew Good album), 2003, or the title song
  • Avalanche (Some Velvet Sidewalk album), 1992
  • Avalanche (British India album), 2010
  • Avalanche (Mountain album), 1974
  • Avalanche (Leah Andreone album), 2009
  • The Avalanche (Sufjan Stevens album), 2006
  • The Avalanche (Owen album), 2020
  • Avalanche (Quadron album), 2013

Songs

  • "Avalanche" (Bring Me the Horizon song), a song on Bring Me the Horizon's 2015 album That's the Spirit
  • "Avalanche" (Leonard Cohen song), a song on Leonard Cohen's 1971 album Songs of Love and Hate
  • "Avalanche" (Migos song), a song on Migos' 2021 album Culture III
  • "Avalanche," a song on Ryan Adams's 2004 album Love Is Hell
  • "Avalanche", a song on Arch Enemy's 2014 album War Eternal
  • "Avalanche", a song on James Arthur's 2021 album It'll All Make Sense in the End
  • "Avalanche", a song on David Cook's 2008 album David Cook
  • "Avalanche", a song on Dawn of Solace's 2006 album The Darkness
  • "Avalanche", a song on Marié Digby's 2009 album Breathing Underwater
  • "Avalanche", a song on Disillusion's 2006 album Gloria
  • "Avalanche", a song on Epica's 2012 album Requiem for the Indifferent
  • "Avalanche", a song on The Ghost Inside's 2014 album Dear Youth
  • "Avalanche", a song on Gigolo Aunts's 1988 album Everybody Happy
  • "Avalanche", a song on Nick Jonas' 2014 album Nick Jonas
  • "Avalanche", a song on Avril Lavigne's 2022 album Love Sux
  • "Avalanche", a song on Manafest's 2010 album The Chase
  • "Avalanche", a song on The Smashing Pumpkins' 2023 album Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts
  • "Avalanche", a song on Still Remains' 2006 album The Serpent
  • "Avalanche", a song on Thirty Seconds to Mars' 2023 album It's the End of the World but It's a Beautiful Day
  • "Avalanche," a song on Wintersleep's 2003 album Wintersleep
  • "Avalanche", a song on Youngblood Brass Band's 2003 album Center:Level:Roar

Gaming

  • Avalanche (video game), 1978 arcade game released by Atari
  • Avalanche (marble game), mechanical abstract strategy game with marbles
  • Avalanche: The Salerno Landings, 1976 board wargame
  • Avalanche chess, chess variant
  • Avalanche joseki, sequence in the game of Go
  • Avalanche Press, producer of wargame and roleplaying game products
  • Avalanche Software, American video game developer
  • Avalanche Studios, Swedish video game developer
  • AVALANCHE, fictional organization in Final Fantasy VII; see Characters of the Final Fantasy VII series

Sports

  • Avalanche, a professional wrestling character portrayed by John Tenta
  • any move performed normally on the mat but when executed off the top or second rope in pro wrestling
  • Adelaide Avalanche, an Australia hockey team
  • Alaska Avalanche, a US hockey team
  • Colorado Avalanche, a US hockey team
  • Denver Avalanche, a US soccer team
  • Hamilton Avalanche, a Canada soccer team
  • Salem Avalanche, a US baseball team
  • Quebec Avalanche, a Canada hockey team

Transportation

  • Chevrolet Avalanche, a sport utility truck
  • HSV Avalanche SUV, a dual-cab utility vehicle
  • Avalanche, a GWR Banking Class locomotive run by the Great Western Railway from 1846 to 1865
  • Avalanche, a GWR 3031 Class locomotive that was built for and run on Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1915
  • Gemballa Avalanche, a high-end automobile

Roller coasters

  • Avalanche (Kings Dominion), a roller coaster at Kings Dominion
  • Avalanche (Blackpool Pleasure Beach), a roller coaster at Pleasure Beach Blackpool

Other meanings

  • Avalanche (character), a Marvel Comics character
  • Avalanche (novel), a novel by Kay Boyle
  • Avalanche!, a 1954 children's novel by Anna Rutgers van der Loeff
  • Avalanche, a horse in Dragon Avenger, the second book in the Age of Fire series by E. E. Knight
  • Avalanche, a 2007 story from the Railway Series book Thomas and Victoria
  • Underwater avalanche (or undersea avalanche), synonyms sometimes used for turbidity currents<!--https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25734230-200-the-mysterious-underwater-avalanches-reshaping-earth/,Clough Head-->

See also

  • Operation Avalanche (disambiguation)
  • Lavalas (disambiguation)
  • Snowball effect, a metaphorical term for a process of gradual growth