• Electrical breakdown
• Breakdown (Transformers)
• Chemical breakdown
• Decomposition
• Mental breakdown
• Breakdown, a statement explaining the details of something such as a bill or cost of a plan.
• A script breakdown for a play, film, or comic book.
• Breakdown (comics), published by Devil's Due Productions as part of their Aftermath line.
• Breakdown (film), starring Kurt Russell.
• Breakdown (Episode), an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
• Breakdown (vehicle), a mechanical failure.
• Breakdown van, See also Vehicle recovery.
• Breakdown, a former persona of professional wrestler Lance Hoyt.
• Breakdown: In Your House, a pay-per-view event held by the World Wrestling Federation.
• Breakdown (video game)
• Breakdown (book), by Bill Gertz.
• Breakdown, a weightlifting drop set

In music

• A technique employed in Extreme Metal music borrowed from Hardcore music. This is usually a slow percussive section intended to create a slurry of frantic headbanging and/or moshpit in a live setting.
• Break (music), an instrumental or percussion section or interlude during a song.
• Breakdown, the disco break or breakdown section of a disco song — see Break (music).
• Breakdown, where a metal or punk band will play in half time, giving the feeling of a slower tempo — see Break (music).
• Breakdown, a specific type of instrumental in bluegrass music (e.g. "Foggy Mountain Breakdown") — see Break (music).
• Breakdown (band), a New York hardcore band from the late 1980s.
• Breakdown (album), by Melissa Etheridge.
• Breakdown (Old and in the Way album).
• Breakdown (Mariah Carey song), by Mariah Carey.
• Breakdown (Tom Petty song).
• Breakdown (Tantric song)
• Breakdown (Jack Johnson song).
• Breakdown (Guns N' Roses song) from their album Use Your Illusion II.
• "Breakdown" a song by Suede from suede (album)
• "Breakdown" a song by The Fat Boys from Big and Beautiful (album)
• "Breakdown", a song by Breaking Benjamin from We Are Not Alone (album).
• "Breakdown", a song by Plain White T's from their album All That We Needed.
• "Breakdown", a song by the Alan Parsons Project from I Robot (album).
• "Breakdown", a song by Relient K from The Anatomy of the Tongue in Cheek.
• "Breakdown", a song by Mae from The Everglow.
• "Breakdown", a song by Daughtry from Daughtry.
• "Breakdown", a song by The Quakes from their album Last of the human beings
• "Breakdown", a song by Band V from Revolution Street
• "Breakdown", a song by Forever The Sickest Kids Underdog Alma Mater.
• "Breakdown (Seether song)", a song by Seether from their album Findinfffg Beauty in Negative Spaces.
• "Breakdown", a song by Michael W. Smith from his album I'll Lead You Home.