Beat

Beat, beats, or beating may refer to:

Common uses

Assault, inflicting physical harm or unwanted physical contact
Battery (crime), a criminal offense involving unlawful physical contact
Battery (tort), a civil wrong in common law of intentional harmful or offensive contact
Corporal punishment, punishment intended to cause physical pain
Patrol, or beat, a group of personnel assigned to monitor a specific area
- Beat (police), the territory that a police officer patrols
- Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men
Strike (attack), repeatedly and violently striking a person or object
Victory, success achieved in personal combat, military operations or in any competition
Beating (hunt), driving game out of areas of cover during a hunt

Beat, an anthro fox in the animated series "Motto! Majime ni Fumajime Kaiketsu Zorori"
Beat, in the video game Eternal Sonata
Beat, in the video game Jet Set Radio
Beat, in the video game The World Ends with You
Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man video game franchise
Beat, in the video game Unbeatable

Beat (band), a Finnish band
The Beat (British band), an English band
The Beat (American band), a power pop band
Beat (supergroup), an American band containing and featuring multiple members from King Crimson

Beat (music), the basic time in music and music theory
Beat music, a popular music genre
Drum beat, a rhythmic pattern
Beat (acoustics), an interference pattern between two sounds of slightly different frequencies

Beat, a time unit of Swatch Internet Time, and a range of watches
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), a citrus-flavored soft drink
Beat (fencing), a simple preparatory motion
Beating against the wind, a sailing manoeuvre
Beats Electronics, or Beats by Dre, an American producer of audio products