A false start is a prohibited movement before play begins in sports.

False start may also refer to: Music False Start (album), a 1970 album by Love False Start (band), a band from Auckland, New Zealand "False Start", a song by Bikini Kill from Reject All American

Other uses False Start (film), (Falscher Start), a 1919 German silent film directed by Georg Alexander TLS False Start, a security feature developed by Google False start, a speech disfluency False Start, a painting by Jasper Johns A False Start: London Poems 1959–1963, a collection of poems by Peter Russell published in 1993

See also Early Start