Baton may refer to:

Stick-like objects

*Baton, a type of

club Club may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''Club'' (magazine) * Club, a ''Yie Ar Kung-Fu'' character * Clubs (suit), a suit of playing cards * Club music * "Club", by Kelsea Ballerini from the album ''kelsea'' Brands and enterprises ...

Baton (law enforcement) A baton (also known as a truncheon or nightstick) is a roughly cylindrical club made of wood, rubber, plastic, or metal. It is carried as a compliance tool and defensive weapon by law-enforcement officers, correctional staff, security guards ...

Baston (weapon) The baston (Spanish and Filipino for "cane") is one of the primary weapons of Arnis and Filipino martial arts. It is also known as ''yantok'', ''olisi'', ''palo'', ''pamalo'', ''garrote'', ''caña'', cane, ''arnis'' stick, ''eskrima'' stick or s ...

, a type of baton used in Arnis and Filipino Martial Arts *

Baton charge A baton charge is a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people, usually used by police or military in response to public disorder. In South Asia, a long bamboo stick, called ''lathi'' in Hindi, is used for crowd control, and the expressi ...

, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people *

Baton (conducting) A baton is a stick that is used by conductors primarily to enlarge and enhance the manual and bodily movements associated with directing an ensemble of musicians. Description Modern batons are generally made of a lightweight wood, fiberglass or c ...

, a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance *

Baton (military) The ceremonial baton is a short, thick stick-like object, typically in wood or metal, that is traditionally the sign of a field marshal or a similar high-ranking military officer, and carried as a piece of their uniform. The baton is distinguis ...

, a symbolic attribute of military or other office *

Baton (running) 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 (conductin ...

, an object transferred by runners in a relay race *

Baton sinister The baton sinister (alternatively baston) is a charge (heraldry), charge used in heraldry. Heraldic charge It is a diminutive of the bend sinister (heraldry), bend sinister and constitutes a narrow strip that runs from the upper right to the l ...

, a mark of cadency in heraldry *

Baton twirling Baton twirling involves using the body to spin a metal rod in a coordinated routine. It is similar to rhythmic gymnastics or color guard. Description Twirling combines dance, agility, coordination and flexibility while manipulating a single bat ...

, a light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling in competitions, etc. *Baton, a smaller version of a

baguette A baguette (; ) is a long, thin type of bread of French origin that is commonly made from basic lean dough (the dough, though not the shape, is defined by French law). It is distinguishable by its length and crisp crust. A baguette has a di ...

*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 A carillon ( , ) is a pitched percussion instrument that is played with a keyboard and consists of at least 23 cast-bronze bells. The bells are hung in fixed suspension and tuned in chromatic order so that they can be sounded harmoniou ...

, the stick-like keys used to play the bells *

Batons (suit) Batons or Clubs is one of the four suits of playing cards in the standard Latin deck along with the suits of Cups, Coins and Swords. 'Batons' is the name usually given to the suit in Italian-suited cards where the symbols look like batons. 'Clu ...

, one of the four suits of playing card in the standard Latin deck *

Suit of wands The Suit of Wands is one of four suits in tarot, collectively known as the Minor Arcana. Like the other tarot suits, the suit of wands contains fourteen cards: ace (one), two through ten, page and knight (sometimes referred to as princess and princ ...

, Batons in the tarot card

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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 (conductin ...

, a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States to secure all types of classified information *

Baton Bob Bob Jamerson, known as Baton Bob, is a well known local character and costumed street performer, currently based in Atlanta, Georgia. Baton Bob used to live in St. Louis, Missouri and in both cities is a significant local personality. He typically ...

, a costumed street performer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia *

Baton Broadcasting Bell Media Inc. ( French: ) is a Canadian company formed by the amalgamation of several companies. Establishment (2011–13) On December 9, 2011, the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan announced the sale of its majority stake in Maple Leaf Sports ...

, a Canadian broadcaster, now owned by CTVglobemedia *

Baton Broadcasting System :''This is about the defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting. For the history of Baton Broadcasting itself, see Bell Media.'' The Baton Broadcast System ( ), also known as BBS, was a Canadian system of television stations located in ...

, a defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting Inc. *''

Baton Bunny ''Baton Bunny'' is a 1959 Warner Bros. ''Looney Tunes'' cartoon, directed by Chuck Jones and Abe Levitow. The short was released on January 10, 1959, and stars Bugs Bunny. It shows Bugs conducting an orchestra - with a fly bothering him. Bugs co ...

'', a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the ''Looney Tunes'' series produced in 1958 *

BATON Overlay The BAlanced Tree Overlay Network (BATON) is a distributed tree structure for peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. Different from other overlays that use a distributed hash table (DHT), such as in the Chord system, BATON organizes peers in a distributed t ...

or Balanced Tree Over-lay Network, a distributed tree structure for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems *

Baton Records Baton Records was an American, New York City based independent record label, launched in 1954 by record producer Sol Rabinowitz, mainly to record and release rhythm and blues music. Baton's first record, and subsequent hit, was "A Thousand Stars" ...

, a record label *

Baton River The Baton River is a river in the Tasman District of the South Island of New Zealand. It rises near the Baton Saddle in the Arthur Range and flows ESE then northeast before feeding into the Motueka River south of Woodstock. A tramping track follo ...

, a river in the Tasman District of New Zealand

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