Beat, beats, or beating may refer to:
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Common usesEdit
- Assault, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact
- Battery (crime), a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact
- Battery (tort), a civil wrong in common law of intentional harmful or offensive contact
- Corporal punishment, punishment intended to cause physical pain
- Patrol, or beat, a group of personnel assigned to monitor a specific area
- Beat (police), the territory that a police officer patrols
- Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men
- Strike (attack), repeatedly and violently striking a person or object
- Victory, success achieved in personal combat, military operations or in any competition
- Beating (hunt), driving game out of areas of cover during a hunt
Arts, entertainment and mediaEdit
Fictional charactersEdit
- Beat, an anthro fox in the animated series "Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori"
- Beat, in the video game Eternal Sonata
- Beat, in the video game Jet Set Radio
- Beat, in the video game The World Ends with You
- Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man video game franchise
Film and TVEdit
- Beat (1997 film), a South Korean action film
- Beat (1998 film), a 1998 Japanese film
- Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs
- Beat (2022 film), an Australian independent film starring Alexandra Jensen
- Beat (filmmaking), a small amount of action resulting in a pause in dialogue
- Beat (TV series), a 2018 German thriller series
- "Beats", a Series B episode of the television series QI (2004)
- Beats (2019 British film), based on the play by Kieran Hurley
- Beats (2019 American film), a coming-of-age drama
MusicEdit
GroupsEdit
- Beat (band), a Finnish band
- The Beat (British band)
- The Beat (American band)
- BEAT, musical group containing multiple members from King Crimson
Albums and songsEdit
- Beat (Bowery Electric album), 1996
- Beat (King Crimson album), 1982
- "Beat" (song), by Kaela Kimura, 2005
- "Beats", a song by AJR from the 2019 album Neotheater
Music channelsEdit
- Beats Music, an Apple music streaming service
- MTV Beats, music TV channel of India
- Beat 102 103, an Irish radio station
Other uses in musicEdit
- Beat (music), the basic time in music and music theory
- Beat music, a popular music genre
- Drum beat, a rhythmic pattern
Other uses in arts, entertainment and mediaEdit
- Beat, an intentional pause for emphasis in comic timing
- Beats (video game), 2007
- Unit of action, or beat, in acting
- Beat Generation
- Beat Magazine
PeopleEdit
Given nameEdit
- Beat (name), a Swiss German male given name
SurnameEdit
- Jackie Beat, drag persona of Kent Fuher (born 1963)
- Aone Beats (born 1984) Nigerian record producer
- Billy Beats (1871-1936) British footballer
- Cohen Beats (Michael Cohen, born 1986), Israeli record producer
- Eno Beats (Enock Kisakye, born 1991), Ugandan record producer
- Laxio Beats (Bernard Antwi-Darko, born 1987), Ghanaian record producer
- Mizz Beats (Iman Yanee, fl. from 2004), British record producer
- Rico Beats (Ricardo Lamarre, fl. from 2004), American record producer
TransportationEdit
- Beat (app), a ride-hailing app
- Beat, a model of the Daiichi Kosho Whisper paramotor
- Chevrolet Beat, a car
- Honda Beat, a car
- Honda FC50, or Honda Beat, a motor scooter
Other usesEdit
- Atlanta Beat, women's pro soccer teams (2001-02; 2009-11)
- Beat, a time unit of Swatch Internet Time, and a range of watches
- Beat (acoustics), an interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies
- Beat (charity), a British charity that supports people with eating disorders
- Beat (drink), a citrus-flavored soft drink
- Beat (fencing), a simple preparatory motion
- Beating against the wind, a sailing manoeuvre
- Beats Electronics, or Beats by Dr. Dre, an American producer of audio products
See alsoEdit
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- The Beat (disambiguation)
- Back Beat (disambiguation)
- Beat It (disambiguation)
- Beet (disambiguation)
- Big beat (disambiguation)
- Downbeat (disambiguation)
- On the Beat (disambiguation)
- Upbeat (disambiguation)
- Beat Generation, a literary movement
- Beat reporting, a genre of journalism
- Beat 'em up, a video game genre
- Beate, a given name
- Beats International, a British dance music band and hip-hop collective
- Beetroot, or beet, or beets, a vegetable
- "Dr. Beat", a 1984 single by Miami Sound Machine
- New beat, Belgian underground music genre
- Saint-Béat, a place in Haute-Garonne, France