title: Crunch
text: # 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), one of the most popular abdominal exercises
  * 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
  