Scout

Scout may refer to:

Youth movement

 * Scout (Scouting), a child, usually 10–18 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement
 * Scouts (The Scout Association), section for 10-14 year olds in the United Kingdom
 * Scouts BSA, section for 11 to 17 year olds in the United States of America
 * Scouts (Baden-Powell Scouts' Association), section is open to both boys and girls between the ages of 10–15 years, and are now formed into local Scout Troops
 * Scouting, Scouting Movement or Scout Movement
 * Traditional Scouting, a trend to return Scouting to traditional style and activities
 * World Organization of the Scout Movement, the international body for Scout organisations
 * The Scout Association, the national scout organisation for the United Kingdom
 * Scouting (magazine), a publication of the Boy Scouts of America

Military uses

 * Scout, to perform reconnaissance

United States

 * Blazer's Scouts, a unit who conducted irregular warfare during the American Civil War
 * United States Army Indian Scouts, Native Americans who were active in the American West in the late 19th–early 20th centuries
 * Apache Scouts, part of the United States Army Indian Scouts, who performed most of their service during the Apache Wars
 * Cavalry scout, a reconnaissance specialist in the United States Army
 * Philippine Scouts, a military organization of the United States Army from 1901 to 1948
 * South Pacific Scouts, a jungle warfare unit formed during World War II from Fijians and Solomon Islanders
 * Scout Sniper, a reconnaissance specialist in the U.S. Marine Corps

United Kingdom and Commonwealth

 * Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland yeomanry regiment of the British Army in the Second Boer War
 * Grey's Scouts, a Rhodesian mounted infantry unit raised in 1975
 * Selous Scouts, a special forces regiment of the Rhodesian Army from 1973 to 1980

India

 * Ladakh Scouts, an Indian Army high mountain and border security regiment specialized for the Ladakh region
 * Arunachal Scouts, an Indian Army high mountain regiment specialized for the state of Arunachal Pradesh
 * Sikkim Scouts, an Indian Army regiment specialized for the state of Sikkim

Pakistan

 * Gilgit Baltistan Scouts, an internal security and border force in Pakistan
 * Bajaur Scouts
 * Chitral Scouts

Equipment

 * Scout (aircraft), pre-1920s (British) terminology for a single-seat fighter
 * Scout plane, a type of shipborne surveillance aircraft
 * Scout rifle, a class of general-purpose rifles
 * Steyr Scout, a modern scoped bolt-action rifle manufactured by Steyr Mannlicher
 * AD Scout, a fighter aircraft designed to defend Britain from Zeppelin bombers during World War I
 * IAI Scout, an unmanned air vehicle used by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1982 Lebanon War
 * Westland Scout, British military helicopter
 * HMS Scout, the name of various British Royal Navy ships
 * USS Scout, the name of various United States Navy ships
 * Ajax (armoured vehicle), formerly Scout SV, an armoured fighting vehicle

Occupations

 * Scout (association football), attends football matches to collect intelligence
 * Scout (sport), a professional sports talent-scout
 * Scout or bedder, a domestic assistant at Oxford University

Aircraft

 * Aeronca K Scout, an American light airplane first marketed in 1937
 * Aeryon Scout, a small reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed and built in Canada
 * American Champion Scout, a two-seat, high-wing, single-engined airplane that entered production in the U.S. in 1974
 * Eagles Wing Scout, an American powered parachute
 * Tennessee Propellers Scout, an American powered parachute design

Other transportation

 * Scout (autonomous boat), an autonomous boat designed to complete a transatlantic crossing
 * Scout (train), a passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, inaugurated in 1916
 * Scout Motor Services, absorbed into Ribble Motor Services, both former bus operators in North West England
 * International Scout, an off-road vehicle which was produced from 1961 to 1980
 * Scout (automobile), a planned electric vehicle brand owned by Volkswagen Group

Arts and entertainment

 * Scout (1987 film), a 1987 British television film by Frank McGuinness in the anthology series ScreenPlay
 * Scout (comics), a comic book series by Timothy Truman, first published in 1985
 * Scout, a playable class type in the 2007 video game Team Fortress 2

Other uses

 * Scout (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Scout
 * Scout (operating system), at the University of Arizona
 * Scout (rocket family), American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth
 * Scout (travel website), a travel website
 * Scout.com, a sports publishing company
 * Mars Scout Program, a U.S. initiative to send a series of small, low-cost robotic missions to Mars
 * Scout, an education toy line of LeapFrog Enterprises
 * Scout, an appointed role following a Dutch parliamentary election to assist in the formation of a new government