Advance commonly refers to: *Advance, an offensive push in sports, games, thoughts, military combat, or sexual or romantic pursuits *

Advance payment An advance payment, or simply an advance, is the part of a contractually due sum that is paid or received in advance for goods or services, while the balance included in the invoice will only follow the delivery. Advance payments are recorded as a ...

for goods or services *

Advance against royalties In the field of intellectual property licensing, an advance against royalties is a payment made by the licensee to the licensor at the start of the period of licensing (usually immediately upon contract, or on delivery of the property being lice ...

, a payment to be offset against future royalty payments Advance may also refer to:

United States

Advance, California Advance is an unincorporated area, unincorporated community in Tulare County, California, Tulare County, California, United States. Advance is north of Three Rivers, California, Three Rivers. Advance was the site of the Kaweah Cooperative Colon ...

* Advance, Indiana *

Flatwoods, Kentucky Flatwoods is a home rule-class city in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States. Flatwoods is considered a suburb of nearby Ashland, although Ashland itself is located in neighboring Boyd County. The population of Flatwoods was 7,423 at the 20 ...

, originally known as Advance *

Advance, Michigan Advance is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Charlevoix County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population of the CDP was 340 at the 2020 census. It is located along Lake Charlevoix within Eveline Township. H ...

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, 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 Of ...

Advance, Wisconsin Advance is an unincorporated community located in the town of Green Valley, Shawano County, Wisconsin Wisconsin () is a state in the upper Midwestern United States. Wisconsin is the 25th-largest state by total area and the 20th-most ...

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

, part of Advance Local, owned by Advance Publications **

Advance Newspapers Advance Newspapers, based in Hudsonville, Michigan, published weekly community newspapers for Kent County, Michigan and portions of Muskegon, Ottawa, and Allegan counties. Advance Newspapers started as an independent company, later purchased b ...

, 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 dela ...

'', 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 Dire ...

, 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 A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or trike (if three-wheeled)) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a han ...

, an English tricar *

Advance (Australian motorcycle) IJ Mitchell of Blyth, South Australia advertised ''Advance'' motorcycle A motorcycle (motorbike, bike, or trike (if three-wheeled)) is a two or three-wheeled motor vehicle steered by a handlebar. Motorcycle design varies greatly to suit ...

, 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 The (GBA) is a 32-bit handheld game console developed, manufactured and marketed by Nintendo as the successor to the Game Boy Color. It was released in Japan on March 21, 2001, in North America on June 11, 2001, in the PAL region on June 22, ...

, 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 Nilfisk is a supplier of professional cleaning equipment in both industrial, commercial and consumer markets. The company is headquartered in Brøndby, Denmark, with sales entities in 45 countries and dealers in more than 100 countries. Nilf ...