Squat, squatter or squatting may refer to:

Body position

Squatting position Squatting is a versatile posture where the weight of the body is on the feet but the knees and hips are bent. In contrast, sitting involves taking the weight of the body, at least in part, on the buttocks against the ground or a horizontal object. ...

, a sitting position where one's knees are folded with heels touching one's buttocks or back of the thighs *

Squat (exercise) A squat is a strength exercise in which the trainee lowers their hips from a standing position and then stands back up. During the descent and knee joints flex while the ankle joint dorsiflexes; conversely the hip and knee joints extend and ...

, a lower-body exercise in strength and conditioning

Computing and the Internet

Cybersquatting Cybersquatting (also known as domain squatting) is the practice of registering, trafficking in, or using an Internet domain name, with a bad faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark belonging to someone else. The term is derived f ...

, refers to registering Internet domain names similar to popular trademarks with the intent to extort the trademark holder *

Squatting attack Squatting attack, in computer science, is a kind of DoS attack where a program interferes with another program through the use of shared synchronization objects in an unwanted or unexpected way. That attack is known in the Microsoft Windows operati ...

, a kind of computer attack

Law and property

Squatting Squatting is the action of occupying an abandoned or unoccupied area of land or a building, usually residential, that the squatter does not own, rent or otherwise have lawful permission to use. The United Nations estimated in 2003 that there ...

, the occupation of abandoned or unused building without the permission of the owner *

Squatting (Australian history) Squatting is a historical Australian term that referred to someone who occupied a large tract of Crown land in order to graze livestock. Initially often having no legal rights to the land, squatters became recognised by the colonial government a ...

, historical Australian term referring to settlers occupying Aboriginal land in order to graze livestock

Media and entertainment

* Squat, a species of Flanimal from the ''

More Flanimals ''More Flanimals'' is the sequel to Ricky Gervais' book '' Flanimals''. Like ''Flanimals'', the book features around 30 species of Flanimal, illustrated by Rob Steen, which make up their own imaginary ecosystem. Some notable Flanimals in this ...

'' and other books in the series * Squat, the alternate name of the title character of Scott Adams' comic '' Plop: The Hairless Elbonian'' *

Squat dance The squat dance (Russian: прися́дка, ''prisyádka'') is an eastern Slavic folk dance. East Slavic dance arose from millitary Cossack traditions and later has spread as folk dance. The squat dance originated in regions of today's Ukraine. ...

, Slavic folk dance *

Squats (song) "Squats" is a song credited to Oh Snap! and Bombs Away. The song was released digitally on 10 April 2015. The song peaked at number 69 on the Australian ARIA Charts The ARIA Charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly ...

, a 2015 song credited to Oh Snap! and Bombs Away * ''Squatter'' (game), an Australian board game * ''Squatters'' (film), a 2014 movie starring Richard Dreyfuss

Science

Squat effect The squat effect is the hydrodynamic phenomenon by which a vessel moving through shallow water creates an area of reduced pressure that causes the ship to increase its draft and thereby be closer to the seabed than would otherwise be expected. ...

, in hydrodynamics * Bob and squat, the pitching motion of bicycle suspensions when under acceleration

Other uses

Squatter pigeon The squatter pigeon (''Geophaps scripta'') is a species of bird in the family Columbidae. It is endemic to northeastern Australia. According to Australia's then Department of the Environment and Energy, the nominate subspecies, southern squatter ...