# Scout

Scout may refer to:

## Youth movement

* Scout (Scouting), a child, usually 10–18 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement
** Scouts (The Scout Association), section for 10-14 year olds in the United Kingdom
** Scouts BSA, section for 11 to 17 year olds in the United States of America
** Scouts (Baden-Powell Scouts' Association), section is open to both boys and girls between the ages of 10–15 years, and are now formed into local Scout Troops
* Scouting, Scouting Movement or Scout Movement
** Traditional Scouting, a trend to return Scouting to traditional style and activities
** World Organization of the Scout Movement, the international body for Scout organisations
** The Scout Association, the national scout organisation for the United Kingdom
* Scouting (magazine), a publication of Scouting America

## Military uses

* Scout, to perform reconnaissance

### Units
#### United States

* Blazer's Scouts, a unit who conducted irregular warfare during the American Civil War
* United States Army Indian Scouts, Native Americans who were active in the American West in the late 19th–early 20th centuries
** Apache Scouts, part of the United States Army Indian Scouts, who performed most of their service during the Apache Wars
* Cavalry scout, a reconnaissance specialist in the United States Army
* Philippine Scouts, a military organization of the United States Army from 1901 to 1948
* South Pacific Scouts, a jungle warfare unit formed during World War II from Fijians and Solomon Islanders
* Scout Sniper, a reconnaissance specialist in the U.S. Marine Corps

#### United Kingdom and Commonwealth

* Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland yeomanry regiment of the British Army in the Second Boer War
* Grey's Scouts, a Rhodesian mounted infantry unit raised in 1975
* Selous Scouts, a special forces regiment of the Rhodesian Army from 1973 to 1980

#### India

* Ladakh Scouts, an Indian Army high mountain and border security regiment specialized for the Ladakh region
* Arunachal Scouts, an Indian Army high mountain regiment specialized for the state of Arunachal Pradesh
* Sikkim Scouts, an Indian Army regiment specialized for the state of Sikkim

#### Pakistan

* Gilgit Baltistan Scouts, an internal security and border force in Pakistan
* Bajaur Scouts
* Chitral Scouts

### Equipment

* Scout (aircraft), pre-1920s (British) terminology for a single-seat fighter
* Scout plane, a type of shipborne surveillance aircraft
* Scout rifle, a class of general-purpose rifles
** Steyr Scout, a modern scoped bolt-action rifle manufactured by Steyr Mannlicher
* AD Scout, a fighter aircraft designed to defend Britain from Zeppelin bombers during World War I
* IAI Scout, an unmanned air vehicle used by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1982 Lebanon War
* Westland Scout, British military helicopter
* HMS Scout, the name of various British Royal Navy ships
* USS Scout, the name of various United States Navy ships
* Ajax (armoured vehicle), formerly Scout SV, an armoured fighting vehicle

## Occupations

* Scout (association football), attends football matches to collect intelligence
* Scout (sport), a professional sports talent-scout
* Scout or bedder, a domestic assistant at Oxford University

## Transportation
### Aircraft

* Aeronca K Scout, an American light airplane first marketed in 1937
* Aeryon Scout, a small reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed and built in Canada
* American Champion Scout, a two-seat, high-wing, single-engined airplane that entered production in the U.S. in 1974
* Eagles Wing Scout, an American powered parachute
* Tennessee Propellers Scout, an American powered parachute design

### Other transportation

* Scout (autonomous boat), an autonomous boat designed to complete a transatlantic crossing
* Scout (train), a passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, inaugurated in 1916
* Scout Motor Services, absorbed into Ribble Motor Services, both former bus operators in North West England
* International Scout, an off-road vehicle which was produced from 1961 to 1980
* Scout (automobile), a planned electric vehicle brand owned by Volkswagen Group

## Arts and entertainment

* Scout (1987 film), a 1987 British television film by Frank McGuinness in the anthology series ScreenPlay
* Scout (comics), a comic book series by Timothy Truman, first published in 1985
* Scout, a playable class type in the 2007 video game Team Fortress 2

## Other uses

* Scout (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Scout
* Scout (operating system), at the University of Arizona
* Scout (rocket family), American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth
* Scout (travel website), a travel website
* Scout.com, a sports publishing company
* Mars Scout Program, a U.S. initiative to send a series of small, low-cost robotic missions to Mars
* Scout, an education toy line of LeapFrog Enterprises
* Scout (Dutch parliament), an appointed role following a Dutch parliamentary election to assist in the formation of a new government