A vicious circle is a complex of events that reinforces itself through a feedback loop.

Vicious circle or Vicious Circle may also refer to:

Music

  • Vicious Circle (band), an Australian hardcore punk band formed in 1983
  • Vicious Circle (album), a 1995 album by L.A. Guns
  • Vicious Circle, a 1982 album by Zero Boys
  • Vicious Circle, a punk rock band featuring Jack Grisham, Todd Barnes, Steve Houston and Laddy Tirrell, whose members later formed the band True Sounds of Liberty (1978)
  • Vicious Circle, a 1989 album by The Vibrators
  • "Vicious Circle", a 1981 single by Abrasive Wheels
  • "Vicious Circle", a song by Lou Reed from Rock and Roll Heart
  • "Vicious Circle", a song by Quiet Riot from Guilty Pleasures
  • "Vicious Circles", a song by Aaron Lewis from Town Line

Film

  • The Vicious Circle (1948 film), a film starring Conrad Nagel
  • The Vicious Circle (1957 film), a film starring John Mills
  • Vicious Circle (2008 film), a 2008 drama film by Paul Boyd
  • Vicious Circle, a name for the Algonquin Round Table in the 1994 film Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle

Television

  • Dane Cook: Vicious Circle, an HBO comedy special featuring Dane Cook
  • "Vicious Circle", a 1957 episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Other uses

  • Vicious Circle (painting), a painting by Polish Symbolist painter Jacek Malczewski
  • Vicious Circle (comics), a fictional character group in Savage Dragon
  • Vicious Circle (novel), a 2013 novel by Wilbur Smith.

See also

  • The Vicious Circle (disambiguation)
  • Vicious Cycle (disambiguation)
  • Vicious circle principle (mathematical logic)