Beat

Beat, beats, or beating may refer to:

Common uses

 * Assault, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact
 * Battery (crime), a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact
 * Battery (tort), a civil wrong in common law of intentional harmful or offensive contact
 * Corporal punishment, punishment intended to cause physical pain
 * Patrol, 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), repeatedly and violently striking a person or object
 * Victory, success achieved in personal combat, military operations or in any competition

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

Groups

 * Beat (band), a Finnish band
 * The Beat (British band)
 * 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, an Irish radio station

Other uses in music

 * Beat (music), 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
 * Beat Generation
 * Beat Magazine

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, and a range of watches
 * Beat (acoustics), 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
 * Beating against the wind, a sailing manoeuvre
 * Beats Electronics, or Beats by Dr. Dre, an American producer of audio products