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
Arts and entertainment
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 Assault Sethu, fictional gangster in the 2014 Indian film Jigarthanda
See also