A bat is a flying mammal of the order Chiroptera. Bat or The Bat may also refer to:

Sport

*Bat, the stick-like implement used to hit the ball in bat-and-ball sports ** Baseball bat **

Cricket bat A cricket bat is a specialised piece of equipment used by batters in the sport of cricket to hit the ball, typically consisting of a cane handle attached to a flat-fronted willow-wood blade. It may also be used by a batter who is making ground ...

*Bat, an alternate name for a

Racket Racket may refer to: * Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime ** Protection racket, a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law * Racket (sports equ ...

** Table tennis racket or bat *

Bolo bat Paddle ball is a one-person game played with a paddle and an attached ball. Using the flat paddle with the small rubber ball attached at the center via an elastic string, the player tries to hit the ball with the paddle in succession as many tim ...

Computing

Bat (metasyntactic variable) A metasyntactic variable is a specific word or set of words identified as a placeholder in computer science and specifically computer programming. These words are commonly found in source code and are intended to be modified or substituted befo ...

, a placeholder name *

The Bat! The Bat! is an email client for the Microsoft Windows operating system, developed by Ritlabs, SRL, a company based in Chişinău, Moldova. There are two versions: a Home version and a Professional version. The Professional version includes a po ...

, an email client by RitLabs for Microsoft Windows *.bat, file extension for a batch file

Film

* ''The Bat'' (1926 film), a silent film * ''The Bat'' (1959 film)

Literature

* ''The Bat'' (play), a 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood * ''The Bat'' (novel), a 1997 detective novel by Jo Nesbø *The Bat, a character in short stories by Johnston McCulley

Military

McDonnell XP-67 Bat The McDonnell XP-67 "Bat" or "Moonbat"It is unclear if either name was an official USAAF designation; both are used in various sources. It is possible that both are informal nicknames that refer to the aircraft's unique appearance. was a prototy ...

, a U.S. Army Air Forces experimental fighter * Bat (guided bomb), developed by the U.S. during World War II * HMS ''Bat'', a Royal Navy destroyer * USS ''Bat'' (1864), a steamer captured by the U.S. during the American Civil War * Northrop Grumman Bat, an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman * Bat bomb, an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States *

ASM-N-2 Bat The ASM-N-2 Bat was a United States Navy World War II radar-guided glide bomb which was used in combat beginning in April 1944. It was developed and overseen by a unit within the National Bureau of Standards (which unit later became a part of ...

, the first guided munition deployed in WWII by the United States

Roller coasters

Bat (Lagoon) The Bat is a Vekoma Suspended Family Coaster located at Lagoon Amusement Park in Farmington, Utah, United States. History The Bat debuted at Lagoon Amusement Park on April 16, 2005. Lagoon had hoped to open the Bat on the opening day of the 2005 ...

, a roller coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park, Utah, United States *

The Bat (Canada's Wonderland) Originally themed around the Middle Ages, Medieval Faire is a section of Canada's Wonderland, a theme park in Vaughan, Ontario, Canada. As such, early attractions created under Kings Entertainment Company were named after knights, Don Quixote, Vi ...

, a roller coaster, Ontario, Canada * The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1981), a defunct roller coaster at Kings Island, Ohio, United States *

The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1993) The Bat, formerly called Flight Deck and Top Gun, is a suspended roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio. Built by Arrow Dynamics, the ride was known as Top Gun when it opened in 1993. It is the park's second suspended coaster following a ...

, previously known as Top Gun and Flight Deck, a roller coaster at Kings Island, Ohio, United States

Other uses

Bat (goddess) Bat is a cow goddess in Egyptian mythology who was depicted as a human face with cow ears and horns or as a woman. Evidence of the worship of Bat exists from the earliest records of the religious practices in ancient Egypt. By the time of the ...

, in Egyptian mythology * Bat (heraldry) * Bat Motor Manufacturing Co., former manufacturer *

One-hitter (smoking) A one-hitter (also oney, bat, tay, oney bat, or taster) is typically a slender pipe with a screened narrow ''bowl'' designed for a single inhalation, or "hit", of smoke or vapor from a small serving (about 25 mg) of heated cannabis flower, tobacco ...

or bat *

Baltic languages The Baltic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 4.5 million people mainly in areas extending east and southeast of the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. Together with the Slavic lang ...

's ISO 639-2 code