Baton may refer to:

Stick-like objects

*Baton, a type of club *

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), 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) 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, 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 *Baton, in

stick juggling The manipulation of the devil stick (also devil-sticks, devilsticks, flower sticks, stunt sticks, gravity sticks, or juggling sticks) is a form of gyroscopic juggling or equilibristics, consisting of manipulating one stick ("baton", 'center sti ...

, the central stick, which is manipulated with the side-sticks (control sticks) *Baton, another word for a

batonette There are a number of regular knife cuts that are used in many recipes, each producing a standardized cut piece of food. The two basic shapes are the strip and the cube. Strip cuts * Pont-neuf; used for fried potatoes ("thick cut" or "steak cut ...

, 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, 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 (conductin ...

, 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

Stick-like objects

Other uses

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