Beat, beats, or beating may refer to:

Common uses

Assault In the terminology of law, an assault is the act of causing physical harm or consent, unwanted physical contact to another person, or, in some legal definitions, the threat or attempt to do so. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may ...

, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact *

Battery (crime) Battery is a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact, distinct from assault, which is the act of creating reasonable fear or apprehension of such contact. Battery is a specific common law offense, although the term is used more gen ...

, a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact * Battery (tort), a civil wrong in common law of intentional harmful or offensive contact *

Corporal punishment A corporal punishment or a physical punishment is a punishment which is intended to cause physical pain to a person. When it is inflicted on Minor (law), minors, especially in home and school settings, its methods may include spanking or Padd ...

, punishment intended to cause physical pain *

Patrol A patrol is commonly a group of personnel, such as law enforcement officers, military personnel, or security personnel, that are assigned to monitor or secure a specific geographic area. Etymology The word "patrol" is derived from the Frenc ...

, 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) A strike is a directed, forceful physical attack with either a part of the human body or with a handheld object (such as a melee weapon), intended to cause blunt trauma, blunt or penetrating trauma upon an opponent. There are many different var ...

, repeatedly and violently striking a person or object *

Victory The term victory (from ) originally applied to warfare, and denotes success achieved in personal duel, combat, after military operations in general or, by extension, in any competition. Success in a military campaign constitutes a strategic vi ...

, 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 media

Fictional characters

* 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 TV

* ''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) In filmmaking, a beat is a small amount of action resulting in a pause in dialogue. Beats usually involve physical gestures like a character walking to a window or removing their glasses and rubbing their eyes. Short passages of internal monolog ...

, a small amount of action resulting in a pause in dialogue * ''Beat'' (TV series), a 2018 German thriller series * "Beats", a

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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

Music

Groups

Beat (band) Finland was represented at the Eurovision Song Contest 1990 with the song "", composed by Kim Engblom, Tina Krause, and Janne Engblom, with lyrics by Stina Engblom, and performed by the band Beat. The Finnish participating broadcaster, (Yle), ...

, a Finnish band *

The Beat (British band) The Beat (known in the United States and Canada as the English Beat and in Australia as the British Beat) are an English band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1978. Their music fuses Latin, ska, Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, reggae and p ...

The Beat (American band) The Beat (soon renamed to Paul Collins' Beat) is an American rock and power pop band from Los Angeles that formed in 1979. Paul Collins' Beat resurfaced in the 1990s and continues to tour and record new material. Front man Paul Collins has re ...

* BEAT, musical group containing multiple members from

King Crimson King Crimson were an English progressive rock band formed in London in 1968 by Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald (musician), Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield. Guitarist Fripp remained the only constant member throughout the ...

Albums and songs

* ''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 channels

* Beats Music, an Apple music streaming service * MTV Beats, music TV channel of India * Beat 102 103, an Irish radio station

Other uses in music

Beat (music) In music and music theory, the beat is the basic unit of time, the pulse (regularly repeating event), of the ''mensural level'' (or ''beat level''). The beat is often defined as the rhythm listeners would tap their toes to when listening to a p ...

, the basic time in music and music theory *

Beat music Beat music, British beat, or Merseybeat is a British popular music Music genre, genre that developed around Liverpool in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The genre melded influences from British rock and roll, British and Music of the United St ...

, a popular music genre * Drum beat, a rhythmic pattern

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* Beat, an intentional pause for emphasis in comic timing * ''Beats'' (video game), 2007 * Unit of action, or beat, in acting * Beat Generation * Beat Magazine

People

Given name

* Beat (name), a Swiss German male given name

Surname

* 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

Transportation

* 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 uses

* Atlanta Beat, women's pro soccer teams (2001-02; 2009-11) * Beat, a time unit of

Swatch Internet Time Swatch Internet Time (or ) is a decimal time system introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation as part of the marketing campaign for their line of ".beat" watches. Those without a watch could use the Internet to view the current time on the wat ...

, and a range of watches *

Beat (acoustics) In acoustics, a beat is an interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies, ''perceived'' as a periodic variation in volume whose rate is the difference of the two frequencies. With tuning instruments that can produc ...

, an interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies *

Beat (charity) Beat is the UK's leading charitable organization, charity supporting those affected by eating disorders and campaigning on their behalf. Founded in 1989 as the Eating Disorders Association, it celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2019. The charit ...

, 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 Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing craft (Sailing ship, sailing vessel, Iceboat, ice boat, or Land sailing, land yacht), whose next destination is into the wind, turns its bow (ship), bow toward and through the wind ...

, a sailing manoeuvre *

Beats Electronics Beats Electronics, LLC (also known as Beats by Dr. Dre, Beats by Dre or simply Beats) is an American consumer audio products manufacturer headquartered in Culver City, California. The company was founded in 2006 by the music producer Dr. Dre and ...

, or Beats by Dr. Dre, an American producer of audio products