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 truncheon, nightstick, billy club, billystick, cosh, ''lathi'', or simply stick) is a roughly cylindrical Club (weapon), club made of wood, rubber, plastic, or metal. It is carried as a Use of force, compliance tool and self-defe ...

Baston (weapon) The baston (Spanish and Filipino language, Filipino for "Stick-fighting, 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, ''a ...

, 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, paramilitary or military in response to public disorder. In the Indian subcontinent, a long bamboo stick, called a '' lathi'' in Bengali, Hindi, ...

, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people *

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

, 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 (conduc ...

, an object transferred by runners in a relay race *

Baton sinister The baton sinister (alternatively baston) is a charge used in heraldry. Heraldic charge It is a diminutive of the bend sinister and constitutes a narrow strip that runs from the upper right to the lower left of a coat of arms. Sinister (meani ...

, a mark of cadency in heraldry *

Baton twirling Baton twirling is a sport that combines dance and Color guard (flag spinning), color guard to create coordinated routines. Instead of such implements as a flag, rifle, sabre, or other props, it requires a "baton" which is a metal rod, typically j ...

, 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, not the shape, is defined by French law). It is distinguishable by its length and crisp crust. A baguette has a diameter ...

*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 musical keyboard, keyboard and consists of at least 23 bells. The bells are Bellfounding, cast in Bell metal, bronze, hung in fixed suspension, and Musical tuning, tu ...

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

Batons (suit) Batons or clubs is one of the four card suit, suits of playing cards in the standard Latin playing cards, Latin deck along with the suits of Cups (card suit), cups, Coins (card suit), coins and Swords (card suit), swords. 'Batons' is the name u ...

, 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 pr ...

, Batons in the tarot card

Other uses

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 (conducti ...

, 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 busking, 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 ...

, a costumed street performer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia *Baton Broadcasting, a Canadian broadcaster that is the predecessor to present-day

Bell Media Bell Media Inc. (Canadian French, French: ) is a Canadian media conglomerate that is the mass media subsidiary of BCE Inc. (also known as Bell Canada Enterprises, the owner of telecommunications company Bell Canada). Its operations include nati ...

Baton Broadcasting System The Baton Broadcast System ( ), also known as BBS, was a Canadian system of television stations located in Ontario and Saskatchewan, owned by Baton Broadcasting. BBS was the successor to two provincial systems also owned by Baton, the Saskatchewa ...

, 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 10 January 1959, and stars Bugs Bunny. It shows Bugs conducting an orchestra – with a fly bothering him. Bugs ...

'', 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 designed for peer-to-peer (P2P) systems. Unlike other overlays that employ a distributed hash table, BATON organises peers in a distributed tree to facilitate range search. ...

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 fo ...

, a river in the Tasman District of New Zealand

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