Crunch

Crunch may refer to:

• Big Crunch, a hypothetical scenario for the ultimate fate of the universe
• Credit crunch, a sudden reduction in the general availability of loans or a sudden tightening of the requirement conditions
• Crunch (chocolate bar), a chocolate bar made of milk chocolate and crisped rice
• Crunch Fitness, a chain of over 300 franchised fitness clubs located in the United States, Canada and Australia
• Crunch (video games), a period in which video game developers take on significant, often uncompensated overtime
• Crunchiness, the sensation of muffled grinding of a foodstuff
• John Draper (born 1943; also "Crunch"), an American computer programmer and legendary former phone phreak

Athletics

• Le Crunch, the traditional name for the England–France rugby match at the Six Nations Championship
• Crunch (exercise), abdominal exercise
• Syracuse Crunch, a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League

Media

• Crunch, a term used in the context of role-playing games
• Crunch (book), a book written by Jared Bernstein
• The Crunch (comics), an A4 British comic
• Crunch (TV programming block), a former Saturday morning programming block dedicated to animation on the Canadian television channel YTV
• Crunch Bandicoot, a character from the Crash Bandicoot franchise of video games

Music

• "The Crunch", a 1977 single by English producer, arranger, conductor and multi-instrumentalist Richard Anthony Hewson
• The Crunch, a 1984 EP by British post-punk/alternative rock band The Nightingales
• Crunch, a 2000 album by American heavy metal band Impellitteri
• The Crunch (band), an English/Swedish power pop group
• Crunch (Cry Wolf album), the second album released by the glam rock band Cry Wolf

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