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"Night Moves" is a song by American singer songwriter Bob Seger. It was the lead single from his ninth studio album of the same name (1976), which was released on Capitol Records. Seger wrote the song as a coming of age tale about adolescent love and adult memory of it. It was based on Seger's teenage love affair, which he experienced in the early 1960s. It took him six months to write and was recorded quickly at Nimbus Nine Studios in Toronto, Ontario, with producer Jack Richardson. As much of Seger's Silver Bullet Band had returned home by this point, the song was recorded with several local session musicians. Released as a single in December 1976, it reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Seger's first hit single since "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" from 1969. It also charted at number five in Canada and was a top 25 hit in Australia. The song changed Seger from a popular regional favorite to a national star.

"Night Moves" has roots in Seger's adolescence; he wrote the song to capture the "freedom and looseness" he experienced during that period. At a certain point, he began socializing with a rougher crowd, who thought he was cool because he played music. "It's about this dark haired Italian girl that I went out with when I was 19, she was one year older than me," he later recalled. Seger promptly pursued a romance with the girl, but eventually her boyfriend returned, and they married, leaving Seger broken hearted. Seger later told journalist Timothy White that many of his early songs were written to impress the girl. The song took Seger over six months to complete writing. He had recently purchased a house due to the success of his first live album, Live Bullet, and he and the band would write and practice in its large basement. The ending lyrics were written first. A 1996 article in The Detroit News claims that Seger wrote portions of the song while at an A&W drive in restaurant in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Seger was inspired by the example of Bruce Springsteen's "Jungleland" to include two bridges in "Night Moves."

"Night Moves" was recorded at Nimbus Nine Studios in Toronto, Ontario. Seger and the Silver Bullet Band had gone there for three days to record a few tracks with The Guess Who's producer Jack Richardson at the request of Seger's manager, who wanted him to produce a more "commercial" song. The band quickly recorded two Seger originals and a cover of the Motown hit "My World Is Empty Without You", but before Seger left on the third day, he composed a fourth song to record. He had been "waiting on the right moment" to record "Night Moves", as he feared a saxophone, performed by Alto Reed, would not complement it, and that lead guitarist Drew Abbott's playing would not be satisfactory. Seger instead remembered that Richardson was not sold on the song at first. To a quiet acoustic guitar, the narrator, awakened by a clap of thunder and unable to fall back asleep, ponders a different sense of the title phrase. Seger said this passage was inspired by late night self analysis and "the uncertainty night represents": "I was thinking about the whole aura of nighttime, the four o'clock in the morning moment when you assess yourself, check your weaknesses." To Rolling Stone critic Dave Marsh, the coda after the false ending takes the song beyond the realm of nostalgia to turn it into a complete story covering both the past and the present. According to Marsh, the song could be "about the sexual discovery embodied in the verses, or the sense of loss and nostalgia captured in its coda. Or you could say that the Bob Seger story really took place in the long silence between them, from the moment he began to play to the moment, fifteen years later, when he was finally widely heard." Marsh also states that the characters in "Night Moves" are more realistic than those in American Graffiti in that the characters in "Night Moves" don't pretend to expect fidelity when pursuing sex, and that the coda reveals how "trivial such a crucial moment" becomes years later. Seger described writing the song: It was inspired by the movie American Graffiti. It was all about cars and peg pants and rolled up T shirts with a cigarette pack up here and stiletto pointed shoes. That's how I grew up, that was my high school years. It was the easiest song in the world to write but the hardest song to finish. It took me six months to finish it. I had the first two verses. Then I'm listening to Born To Run and I notice in "Jungleland" Bruce had a double bridge. I never thought of two bridges in one song. So I have two bridges in "Night Moves." People at Capitol Records told me after they heard the song "Night Moves" that I had a 'career record". They said: "This is a song that you're gonna have to play for the rest of your life."

"Night Moves" was a commercial success in the United States. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the week of December 11, 1976 at number 85, gradually rising over the ensuing weeks to a peak of number four on March 12, 1977, "Night Moves" was Seger's first single to chart in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100. In total, it spent 21 weeks on the chart. eventually rising over twelve weeks to a peak of number five on March 12, 1977. Billboard described "Night Moves" as having a similar feel and theme to Van Morrison's "Wild Night," stating that the theme was "the earthy yearnings of adolescence" and saying that Seger matched Bruce Springsteen and Rod Stewart in vocal expressiveness. Cash Box said that the song is "based on standard, emotive rock 'n' roll chords played on acoustic guitar, dressed up with keyboards, a soulful backing chorus and of course Seger's throaty voice." Los Angeles Times critic Robert Hilburn said that "this Van Morrison influenced slice back seat sensuality" may be the song to return Seger to the Top 10 after an 8 year absence. In his 1979 volume Stranded: Rock and Roll for a Desert Island, famed rock critic Greil Marcus selected the single "Night Moves" for inclusion on same, writing simply: "The mystic chords of memory." Paul Evans, in The New Rolling Stone Album Guide, writes: "[It] is not only Seger's best song, but one of rock's most moving exercises in elegy." For his part, Seger has claimed that "Night Moves" is his favorite song he ever wrote, and he continued to try and replicate it years afterward.

"Night Moves" was named by Rolling Stone as Best Single of the Year for 1977 and was included in their list of the Top 500 Greatest Songs of All Time at No. 301. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, Seger's only such selection.

Filmmaker Gary Weis produced an unofficial music video for "Night Moves" that aired on Saturday Night Live in January 1977. In 1994, nearly 20 years after the original song was released, an official accompanying music video was released. Directed by Wayne Isham, it was set in a drive in movie theater in the early 1960s; it interspersed footage of Seger performing in a present day version of the drive in (seemingly, now abandoned) with various vignettes featuring characters described in the song. Matt LeBlanc, a friend of Isham's, was in the starring role before his debut in Friends; he later claimed that he was drunk through the whole video, as Seger had shared a bottle of tequila with him in the musician's motorhome immediately before the shoot. Also featured in the video was Daphne Zuniga of Melrose Place. In the video, Zuniga's dark, edgy young woman becomes an object of visual fascination for LeBlanc's clean cut young man. Johnny Galecki and Natasha Gregson Wagner also appear in the video as a young couple.

Credits are adapted from Mix Magazine that has never been commercially released. In 1995 and 1996, the song was used in the closing credits of TNN's broadcast of The Winston. The song can be heard twice during the first season of The O. C Seger is one of Julie's favorite singers. How I Met Your Mother, Season 5 episode 20 called Home Wreckers, the song is playing on the radio as Barney drives Ted's mother to the airport and seduces her. "Night Moves" was referenced in the popular NBC sitcom 30 Rock in the nineteenth episode of Season Three. Liz Lemon sings "Workin' on my Night Cheese!" as she consumes a one pound brick of what appears to be cheddar cheese. It has also been reported that the purchase of the broadcast rights to "Night Moves" was required for the scene, reportedly costing the network as much as $50,000. The song is also featured in the video game Grand Theft Auto V, on one of the game's fictional radio stations, Los Santos Rock Radio. The song also appeared in the TV series Supernatural in the fourth episode of Season Eleven entitled "Baby".