Beat, beats or beating may refer to:

Common uses

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 From French ''patrouiller'', from Old Frenc ...

, or beat, a group of personnel assigned to monitor a specific area **

Beat (police) In police terminology, a beat is the territory that a police officer is assigned to patrol. Beats are used to effectively divide available officers across a law enforcement agency's jurisdiction, ensuring organized police presence across a wide a ...

, the territory that a police officer patrols ** Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men *

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

, a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact *

Assault An assault is the act of committing physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result in cri ...

, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact * Corporal punishment, punishment intended to cause physical pain *

Strike (attack) A strike is a directed physical attack with either a part of the human body or with an inanimate object (such as a weapon) intended to cause blunt trauma or penetrating trauma upon an opponent. There are many different varieties of strikes. A ...

, repeatedly and violently striking a person or object *

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

, success achieved in personal combat, military operations or in any competition

People

* Beat (name), a German male given name * Jackie Beat, drag persona of Kent Fuher (born 1963) *

Aone Beats William Alfred, better known as Aone, is a Nigerian-born American record producer and songwriter, signed to Rick Ross' label Maybach Music Group. He became active in the music industry in 2008 and is known for his work with urban music artists s ...

(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, known professionally as Rico Beats, is an American record executive, record producer, and songwriter. His most notable production credits are DJ Khaled's "Take That Off", Nicki Minaj's " Roman Reloaded", Soulja Boy's " Mean Mu ...

(Ricardo Lamarre, fl. from 2004), American record producer

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

* Beat, in video game ''

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'' * Beat, in the game '' Jet Set Radio'' * Beat, in the game '' The World Ends with You'' * Beat, a robot bird in the ''

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'' series

Film

* ''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'' (TV series), a 2018 German thriller series * ''Beats'' (2019 British film), based on the play by Kieran Hurley * ''Beats'' (2019 American film), a coming-of-age drama *

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 monolo ...

, a small amount of action resulting in a pause in dialogue

Music

Groups

Beat (band) Beat were a Finnish band who represented their country in Eurovision Song Contest 1990. The group performed the song Fri? (Free?) in Swedish Swedish or ' may refer to: Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, s ...

, 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 a British band formed in Birmingham, England, in 1978. Their music fuses Latin, ska, pop, soul, reggae and punk rock. The Beat, co ...

* The Beat (American band)

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 Beat 102 103 is an independent regional radio station in the Republic of Ireland licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland covering counties Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Tipperary in South East Ireland. It began broadcast ...

, 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 ...

, 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 media

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

Transportation

* Beat (app), a ride-hailing app * Beat, a model of the

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paramotor *

Chevrolet Beat The Chevrolet Spark ( ko, 쉐보레 스파크, translit=) is a city car manufactured by General Motors's subsidiary GM Korea from 1998 to 2022. The vehicle was initially developed by Daewoo and was introduced in 1998 as the Daewoo Matiz ( ko, 대� ...

, a car * Honda Beat, a car * Honda FC50, or Honda Beat, a motor scooter

Other uses

Beat (acoustics) In acoustics, a beat is an Interference (wave propagation), interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequency, frequencies, ''perceived'' as a periodic variation in amplitude (music), volume whose rate is the Difference (math ...

, 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 * Beats Electronics, or Beats by Dr. Dre, an American producer of audio products * Beat, a time unit of Swatch Internet Time, and a range of watches * Beating against the wind, a sailing manoeuvre