Assault (disambiguation)

Assault is a crime and a tort involving physically harming, or threatening to harm, another person.

Assault may also refer to:

Law

 * Assault (tort), in common law, an intentional act causing the reasonable apprehension of harmful contact
 * Common assault, an offence in English law similar to the above
 * Psychic assault, a term sometimes used as a synonym for assault to distinguish from the crime of battery

Films

 * Assault (film), a 1971 British crime thriller
 * The Assault (1936 film), a French drama
 * The Assault (1986 film), a Dutch film set in WWII, based on the 1982 Mulisch novel
 * The Assault (1996 film), an American action movie
 * The Assault (2010 film), a French action thriller
 * The Assault (2017 film), an American crime action movie

Video games

 * Assault (1983 video game), a fixed shooter game for the Atari 2600
 * Assault (1988 video game), a multi-directional shooter arcade game
 * Assault: Retribution, a 1998 video game for the PlayStation console
 * Star Fox: Assault, a 2005 video game for the Nintendo GameCube console

Other media

 * The Assault, a 1982 Dutch novel by Harry Mulisch
 * Assault Championship Wrestling, Connecticut, U.S.
 * "Assault", a 1994 song by Daft Punk

Other uses

 * Assault (horse) (1943–1971), a Texas-bred American racehorse
 * Assault, a military tactic