Baton may refer to:

Stick-like objects

*Baton, a type of club *

Baton (law enforcement) A baton (also truncheon, nightstick, billy club, billystick, cosh, ''lathi'', or simply stick) is a roughly cylindrical Club (weapon), club made of wood, rubber, plastic, or metal. It is carried as a Use of force, compliance tool and self-defe ...

Baston (weapon) The baston (Spanish and Filipino language, Filipino for "Stick-fighting, cane") is one of the primary weapons of Arnis and Filipino martial arts. It is also known as ''yantok'', ''olisi'', ''palo'', ''pamalo'', ''garrote'', ''caña'', cane, ''a ...

, a type of baton used in Arnis and Filipino Martial Arts *

Baton charge A baton charge is a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people, usually used by police, paramilitary or military in response to public disorder. In the Indian subcontinent, a long bamboo stick, called a '' lathi'' in Bengali, Hindi, ...

, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people *

Baton (conducting) A baton is a stick that is used by Conducting, conductors primarily to enlarge and enhance the manual and bodily movements associated with directing an Musical ensemble, ensemble of musicians. Description Modern batons are generally made of a ligh ...

, a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance *

Baton (military) The ceremonial baton is a short, thick stick-like object, typically in wood or metal, that is traditionally the sign of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military officer, and carried as a piece of their uniform. The baton is distinguis ...

, a symbolic attribute of military or other office *

Baton (running) Baton may refer to: Stick-like objects *Baton, a type of club *Baton (law enforcement) * Baston (weapon), a type of baton used in Arnis and Filipino Martial Arts * Baton charge, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people *Baton (conduc ...

, an object transferred by runners in a relay race * Baton sinister, a mark of cadency in heraldry *

Baton twirling Baton twirling is a sport that combines dance and Color guard (flag spinning), color guard to create coordinated routines. Instead of such implements as a flag, rifle, sabre, or other props, it requires a "baton" which is a metal rod, typically j ...

, a light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling in competitions, etc. *Baton, a smaller version of a

baguette A baguette (; ) is a long, thin type of bread of French origin that is commonly made from basic lean dough (the dough, not the shape, is defined by French law). It is distinguishable by its length and crisp crust. A baguette has a diameter ...

*Baton, in stick juggling, the central stick, which is manipulated with the side-sticks (control sticks) *Baton, another word for a batonette, a culinary knife cut *Batons, in the keyboard of a

carillon A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a musical keyboard, keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are Bellfounding, cast in Bell metal, bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and Musical tuning, tu ...

, the stick-like keys used to play the bells *

Batons (suit) Batons or clubs is one of the four card suit, suits of playing cards in the standard Latin playing cards, Latin deck along with the suits of Cups (card suit), cups, Coins (card suit), coins and Swords (card suit), swords. 'Batons' is the name u ...

, one of the four suits of playing card in the standard Latin deck *

Suit of wands The suit of wands is one of four suits in tarot, collectively known as the Minor Arcana. Like the other tarot suits, the suit of wands contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page and knight (sometimes referred to as princess and pr ...

, Batons in the tarot card

Other uses

* BATON, a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States to secure all types of classified information * Baton Bob, a costumed street performer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia *Baton Broadcasting, a Canadian broadcaster that is the predecessor to present-day

Bell Media Bell Media Inc. (Canadian French, French: ) is a Canadian media conglomerate that is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the owner of telecommunications company Bell Canada). Its operations include nati ...

* Baton Broadcasting System, a defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting Inc. *'' Baton Bunny'', a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the ''Looney Tunes'' series produced in 1958 * BATON Overlay or Balanced Tree Over-lay Network, a distributed tree structure for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems * Baton Records, a record label * Baton River, a river in the Tasman District of New Zealand

Stick-like objects

Other uses

See also