Baton

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 (conducting), a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance
 * Baton (military), a symbolic attribute of military or other office
 * Baton (running), an object transferred by runners in a relay race
 * Baton sinister, a mark of cadency in heraldry
 * Baton twirling, a light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling in competitions, etc.
 * Baton, a smaller version of a baguette
 * 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, the stick-like keys used to play the bells
 * Batons (suit), one of the four suits of playing card in the standard Latin deck
 * Suit of wands, 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, now owned by CTVglobemedia
 * 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