Bat (disambiguation)

A bat is a flying mammal of the order Chiroptera.

Bat or The Bat may also refer to:

Computing

 * Bat (metasyntactic variable), a placeholder name
 * The Bat!, an email client by RitLabs for Microsoft Windows
 * .bat, file extension for a batch file

Film

 * The Bat (1926 film), a silent film
 * The Bat (1959 film)

Literature

 * The Bat (play), a 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
 * The Bat (novel), a 1997 detective novel by Jo Nesbø
 * The Bat (pulp fiction character), a character in short stories by Johnston McCulley

Military

 * McDonnell XP-67 Bat, a U.S. Army Air Forces experimental fighter
 * Bat (guided bomb), developed by the U.S. during World War II
 * HMS Bat, a Royal Navy destroyer
 * USS Bat (1864), a steamer captured by the U.S. during the American Civil War
 * Northrop Grumman Bat, an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman
 * Bat bomb, an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States
 * ASM-N-2 Bat, the first guided munition deployed in WWII by the United States

Roller coasters

 * Bat (Lagoon), a roller coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park, Utah, United States
 * The Bat (Canada's Wonderland), a roller coaster, Ontario, Canada
 * The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1981), a defunct roller coaster at Kings Island, Ohio, United States
 * The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1993), previously known as Top Gun and Flight Deck, a roller coaster at Kings Island, Ohio, United States

Sports

 * Bat, the club-like implement used to hit the ball in bat-and-ball games
 * Baseball bat
 * Cricket bat
 * Bat, an alternative name for a racket
 * Table tennis racket or bat
 * Bolo bat
 * Table tennis racket or bat
 * Bolo bat

Other uses

 * Bat (goddess), in Egyptian mythology
 * Bat (heraldry)
 * Bat Motor Manufacturing Co., former manufacturer
 * One-hitter (smoking) or bat
 * Baltic languages's ISO 639-2 code
 * Bar and Bat Mitzvah, a coming of age ceremony in Judaism, with "bat" meaning daughter in Hebrew
 * Turkish cold bulgur soup, a soup also known as Bat in the Turkish language
 * Bat Masterson (1853–1921), gunfighter, lawman, sports reporter