Beat, beats or beating may refer to:

Common uses

Patrol A patrol is commonly a group of personnel, such as Law enforcement officer, law enforcement officers, military personnel, or Security guard, security personnel, that are assigned to monitor or secure a specific geographic area. Etymology Fro ...

, or beat, a group of personnel assigned to monitor a specific area **

Beat (police) In police terminology, a beat is the territory that a police officer is assigned to patrol. Beats are used to effectively divide available officers across a law enforcement agency's jurisdiction, ensuring organized police presence across a wide a ...

, the territory that a police officer patrols ** Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men * Battery (crime), a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact *

Assault An assault is the act of committing physical harm or unwanted physical contact upon a person or, in some specific legal definitions, a threat or attempt to commit such an action. It is both a crime and a tort and, therefore, may result in crim ...

, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact * Corporal punishment, punishment intended to cause physical pain *

Strike (attack) A strike is a directed physical attack with either a part of the human body or with an inanimate object (such as a weapon) intended to cause blunt trauma or penetrating trauma upon an opponent. There are many different varieties of strikes. ...

, repeatedly and violently striking a person or object * Victory, success achieved in personal combat, military operations or in any competition

People

* Beat (name), a German male given name * 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 October 5, 1986), known by his stage name Cohen () or by his producer name Cohen Beats (stylized as CohenBeats or Cohenbeats), he is a half of the duo Cohen@Mushon beside Michael Moshonov. Biography Born in Israel, the s ...

(Michael Cohen, born 1986), Israeli record producer *

Eno Beats Enock Kisakye (born April 26, 1991), better known as Producer Eno Beats, is a Ugandan music producer. He is the Chief executive officer at Eno Beats Production Limited located in Makindye, Kampala. Eno has worked with most of Uganda's top musici ...

(Enock Kisakye, born 1991), Ugandan record producer *

Laxio Beats Bernard Antwi-Darko, better known as Laxio Beats, is a Ghanaian record producer and composer. He is best known for the production of Ghanaian rapper Guru’s hit single akayida in 2013. Early life, music career Laxio Beats, the youngest o ...

(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

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional characters

* Beat, in video game '' Eternal Sonata'' * Beat, in the game '' Jet Set Radio'' * Beat, in the game '' The World Ends with You'' * Beat, a robot bird in the ''

Mega Man ''Mega Man'', known as in Japan, is a Japanese science fiction video game franchise created by Capcom, starring a series of robot characters each known by the moniker "Mega Man (character), Mega Man". Mega Man (video game), The original game w ...

'' series

Film

* ''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'' (TV series), a 2018 German thriller series * ''Beats'' (2019 British film), based on the play by Kieran Hurley * ''Beats'' (2019 American film), a coming-of-age drama * Beat (filmmaking), a small amount of action resulting in a pause in dialogue

Music

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 MTV India is an Indian pay television channel specialising in music, reality and youth culture programming. It was launched in 1996 as the Indian version of MTV and is owned by Viacom 18, a joint venture operation between MTV International own ...

, music TV channel of India *

Beat 102 103 Beat 102 103 is an independent regional radio station in the Republic of Ireland licensed by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland covering counties Waterford, Carlow, Kilkenny, Wexford and Tipperary in South East Ireland. It began broadcast ...

, 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 In acting, units of action, otherwise known as bits or beats, are sections that a play's action can be divided into for the purposes of dramatic exploration in rehearsal. The concept was propounded by the Russian actor, director and educator ...

, or beat, in acting

Transportation

* Beat (app), a ride-hailing app * Beat, a model of the Daiichi Kosho Whisper paramotor *

Chevrolet Beat The Chevrolet Spark ( ko, 쉐보레 스파크, translit=) is a city car manufactured by General Motors's subsidiary GM Korea from 1998 to 2022. The vehicle was initially developed by Daewoo and was introduced in 1998 as the Daewoo Matiz ( ko, 대� ...

, a car *

Honda Beat The Honda Beat is a rear wheel drive, mid-engined two-seat roadster kei car produced from May 1991 until February 1996. The Beat was the last car to be approved by Soichiro Honda before he died in 1991. The total number of cars produced was ar ...

, a car * Honda FC50, or Honda Beat, a motor scooter

Other uses

* 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) BEAT is a citrus-flavored soft drink by The Coca-Cola Company released in Mexico in 2002. It was a Mexican version of citrus soft drinks like Mello Yello or Surge and a response to the release in Mexico of Mountain Dew by PepsiCo. Beat was disco ...

, a citrus-flavored soft drink * Beat (fencing), a simple preparatory motion * Beats Electronics, or Beats by Dr. Dre, an American producer of audio products * Beat, a time unit of

Swatch Internet Time Swatch Internet Time (or ) is a decimal time concept introduced in 1998 by the Swatch corporation as part of their marketing campaign for their line of "Beat" watches. Instead of hours and minutes, the mean solar day is divided into 1,000 parts ...

, and a range of watches *

Beating against the wind Tacking is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing vessel, whose desired course is into the wind, turns its bow toward and through the wind so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side of the boat to the other, allowing p ...

, a sailing manoeuvre