Guard or guards may refer to:
Professional occupations
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Bodyguard
A bodyguard (or close protection officer/operative) is a type of security guard, government law enforcement officer, or servicemember who protects a person or a group of people — usually witnesses, high-ranking public officials or officers, w ...
, who protects an individual from personal assault
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Crossing guard, who stops traffic so pedestrians can cross the street
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Lifeguard
A lifeguard is a rescuer who supervises the safety and rescue of swimmers, surfers, and other water sports participants such as in a swimming pool, water park, beach, spa, river and lake. Lifeguards are trained in swimming and CPR/ AED first a ...
, who rescues people from drowning
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Prison guard, who supervises prisoners in a prison or jail
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Security guard
A security guard (also known as a security inspector, security officer, or protective agent) is a person employed by a government or private party to protect the employing party's assets (property, people, equipment, money, etc.) from a variety ...
, who protects property, assets, or people
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Conductor (rail) § Train guard, in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and India
Computing and telecommunications
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Guard (computer science), in programming language, an expression that directs program execution
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Guard (information security), a device for controlling communication between computer networks
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Guard interval
In telecommunications, guard intervals are used to ensure that distinct transmissions do not interfere with one another, or otherwise cause overlapping transmissions. These transmissions may belong to different users (as in TDMA) or to the same ...
, intervals in transmission, used in telecommunications
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Aircraft emergency frequency
The aircraft emergency frequency (also known as GUARD) is a frequency used on the aircraft band reserved for emergency communications for aircraft in distress. The frequencies are 121.5 MHz for civilian, also known as International Air Distress ...
, commonly referred to as "guard"
Governmental and military
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Border guard
A border guard of a country is a national security agency that performs border security. Some of the national border guard agencies also perform coast guard (as in Federal Police (Germany), Germany, Guardia di Finanza, Italy or State Border Gua ...
, a state security agency
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Coast guard, responsible for coastal defence and offshore rescue
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Colour guard, a detachment of soldiers assigned to the protection of regimental colors
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Commander-in-Chief's Guard
The Commander-in-Chief's Guard, commonly known as Washington's Life Guard, was a unit of the Continental Army that protected General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War. Formed in 1776, the Guard was with Washington in all o ...
, a unit of the Continental Army that protected General George Washington
* Foot guards, a senior infantry unit in some armies, often with ceremonial duties
* Garda Síochána, Irish police force informally known as Guards
* Guard of honour, primarily ceremonial
* Guards (Russia), elite military in pre-revolutionary Russia
* Guards unit, a title earned by distinguished units in the former Soviet Union and in some contemporary ex-Soviet states
* Police in medieval contexts
* Royal Guard, military bodyguards, soldiers or armed retainers responsible for the protection of a royal person, often an elite unit of the regular armed forces.
Sports
* Guard (gridiron football), a player between the center and the tackles on the offensive line
* Guard (basketball)
** Point guard, or "playmaker"
** Shooting guard, or "off guard"
** Combo guard, combining both point and shooting guard
* Guard (grappling), a position in martial arts
* Color guard (flag spinning), people who toss flags, spin a rifle and a saber at performances with a marching band
* Winter guard, people who spin and toss flags, rifles, and/or sabers at indoor performances on a tarp
Other uses
* Guard (surname)
* Guards (band), an American rock band
* Guards (steamboat)
* Guard (weapon), part of the handle of a sword designed to stop the user's hand from slipping onto the blade
* Guard dogs, guard llamas and guard goose, guard geese, animals employed to watch for unwanted or unexpected animals or people
* Abdominal guarding, in medicine, the tensing of the abdominal wall muscles to guard inflamed organs
* Mate guarding, guarding of a potential or former mate from other individuals
* Mouthguard, a protective device for the mouth
* Wächter (Anatol), ''Wächter'' (Anatol) (''Guards''), several monumental sculptures by Anatol Herzfeld
See also
* Civil Guard (disambiguation)
* The Guard (disambiguation)
* National Guard (disambiguation)
* Sentry (disambiguation)
* Sentinel (disambiguation)
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