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offensive Offensive may refer to: * Offensive, the former name of the Dutch political party Socialist Alternative * Offensive (military), an attack * Offensive language ** Fighting words or insulting language, words that by their very utterance inflict inj ...

push in sports, games, thoughts, military combat, or sexual or romantic pursuits * Advance payment for goods or services * Advance against royalties, a payment to be offset against future royalty payments Advance may also refer to:

United States

* Advance, California *

Advance, Indiana Advance is a town in Jackson Township, Boone County, Indiana, United States. The population was 477 at the 2010 census. History The town was platted in 1820 and was originally called "Osceola;" however, there was already a town of that name in ...

* Flatwoods, Kentucky, originally known as Advance * Advance, Michigan *

Advance, Missouri Advance is a city located at the intersection of State Highway 25 and State Highway 91/Route C in northern Stoddard County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,347 at the 2010 census. Advance was founded ''circa'' 1882. The town is pron ...

Advance, North Carolina Advance (pronounced with the stress on the first syllable) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Davie County, North Carolina, United States. It is seventy-five miles northeast of Charlotte. As of the 2010 census it ...

Advance, Ohio Advance is an unincorporated community at the junction of Dover, Chesterfield, and Pike Townships, in Fulton County, Ohio, United States, which is also the junction of County Road M and County Road 13. History Advance had a United States Post Offi ...

Advance, Wisconsin Advance is an unincorporated community located in the town of Green Valley, Shawano County, Wisconsin, United States. Advance is located at the junction of county highways C and E east-southeast of Cecil Cecil may refer to: People with the na ...

* Advance Township, North Dakota

Canada

* Advance, Ontario

Ships

* ''Advance'' (or ''A. D. Vance''), a Confederate blockade runner (1863-1864) * ''Advance'' (1872), a wooden Top sail schooner * ''Advance'' (1874), a Composite Schooner * ''Advance'' (1884), an Iron Steamer screw Tug * ''Advance'' (1903), a diesel powered wooden carvel schooner * ''Advance'' (shipwrecked 1933), a screw steamer *, several ships of the US Navy

Organizations

Advance Together Advance Together (often shortened to Advance) was a British political party. The party was led by Annabel Mullin, a former Liberal Democrats (UK), Liberal Democrat member and parliamentary candidate for Kensington (UK Parliament constituency), Kens ...

, a short-lived British political party * Advance (trade union), a trade union based in the United Kingdom *

Advance Publications Advance Publications, Inc., doing business as Advance, is an American media company owned by the descendants of S.I. Newhouse Sr., Donald Newhouse and S.I. Newhouse Jr. It owns a large number of subsidiary companies, including Condé Nast, an ...

, an American media company **

Advance Digital Advance Digital provides sales and content strategy, product development and technology to the Advance Local media group, part of Advance Publications. Advance Publications is an American media company owned by the descendants of Samuel Irving Ne ...

, part of Advance Local, owned by Advance Publications ** Advance Newspapers, based in Hudsonville, Michigan *''

Barrie Advance The ''Barrie Advance'' is a weekly newspaper serving Barrie, Ontario. History The first newspaper north of Toronto was published August 6, 1847, though because it was truly a time of pioneer printing, it was actually a week later due to a delay ...

'', a weekly newspaper serving Barrie, Ontario * ''Advance'' (newspaper), a Sudanese newspaper *

Advance Thun Advance Thun SA is a Swiss aircraft manufacturer based in Thun. The company specializes in the design and manufacture of paragliders, harnesses, paragliding carrying bags and paragliding clothing.Bertrand, Noel; Rene Coulon; et al: ''World Directo ...

, a Swiss paraglider manufacturer

Music

* ''Advance'' (album), a 1996 album by British techno act LFO *''

Advance! ''Advance!'' is an album by drummer Philly Joe Jones which was recorded in 1978 and released on the Galaxy in the following year.Advance/Mata Asa ga Kuru "Advance/Mata Asa ga Kuru" is the forty-second single by the Japanese band Tokio. It was released on February 3, 2010, under the label J Storm. The single peaked at number five on the Oricon weekly chart. The song "Mata Asa ga Kuru" is used as a ...

, song by Tokio

Other uses

Advance (English automobile) The Advance was an English tricar producing 6 hp (4.5 kW) offered from 1902 to 1912 by a Northampton motorcycle manufacturer. See also * List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom :''This list is incomplete. You can help by addin ...

, an English tricar *

Advance (Australian motorcycle) IJ Mitchell of Blyth, South Australia advertised ''Advance'' motorcycles built to order in 1905–06. At least one machine was registered.Robert Saward, “A-Z of Australian-Made Motorcycles: 1893-1942”, Turton & Armstrong, Sydney, 1996 Refere ...

, a built-to-order bike 1905–1906 *

, a Swiss paraglider manufacturer *

Advance (horse) Advance was one of the great Thoroughbred colts of the New Zealand turf. Crowd-pleasing, front-running colt won good races up to 1-1/2 miles, but "The Black Demon" was best known as a superior weight-carrier, one of the best, if not the best, of ...

, a Thoroughbred horse * Game Boy Advance, a 2001 Nintendo handheld *

Game Boy Advance SP The Game Boy Advance SP (GBA SP), released in Japan on February 14, 2003, is a sixth-generation handheld game console developed, released, and marketed by Nintendo that served as an upgraded version of the original Game Boy Advance. The "SP" in ...

, the 2003 successor * Nilfisk-Advance, a brand of cleaning equipment