A brake is a device which inhibits motion.
Brake may also refer to:
Transportation
- Brake (carriage), a horse-drawn carriage used to train horses for draft work
- Railway brake
- Air brake (disambiguation)
- Air brake (aeronautics), in aeronautics, a type of flight control system used on aircraft to reduce speed
- Air brake (road vehicle), a type of brake used on large vehicles in place of hydraulic brakes, using compressed air
- Railway air brake, a type of brake operated by compressed air and used on locomotives and railroad cars
- Hydraulic brake
- Dynamic braking
- Regenerative brake
- Electromagnetic brake
- Emergency brake (train)
- Parking brake
- Counter-pressure brake
- Drum brake
- Disc brake
Places
- Brake, Lower Saxony, a city in Germany
- Brake, West Virginia
- Brake, a former independent city now incorporated into Lemgo, Germany
Arts
Literature and film
- Brake (film), a 2012 action film starring Stephen Dorff
- Brakes (film), a 2016 British improvised comedy film
- "Brake" (Anderson), science fiction story by Poul Anderson
Music
- Brakes (band), an English rock band, known in the US as BrakesBrakesBrakes
- The Brakes, a rock band from Philadelphia
- "Brakes", a 2008 single from British pop rock band Royworld
Other
- Brake, ferns of the genus Pteris
- Brake (sheet metal bending), a tool for bending sheet metal
- Brake (surname)
- Brake (charity) a road safety charity
- Brakes (company), a food distributor in the UK and France
See also
- Braken (disambiguation)
- Break (disambiguation)