# 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

## Arts, entertainment and media
### Fictional characters

* 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

### Film and TV

* Beat (1997 film), a South Korean action film
* Beat (1998 film), a 1998 Japanese film
* Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs
* Beat (2022 film), an Australian independent film starring Alexandra Jensen
* Beat (filmmaking), a small amount of action resulting in a pause in dialogue
* Beat (TV series), a 2018 German thriller series
* "Beats", a Series B episode of the television series QI (2004)
* Beats (2019 British film), based on the play by Kieran Hurley
* Beats (2019 American film), a coming-of-age drama

### Music
#### Groups

* Beat (band), a Finnish band
* The Beat (British band)
* The Beat (American band)
* BEAT, musical group containing multiple members from King Crimson

#### Albums and songs

* Beat (Bowery Electric album), 1996
* Beat (King Crimson album), 1982
* "Beat" (song), by Kaela Kimura, 2005
* "Beats", a song by AJR from the 2019 album Neotheater

#### Music channels

* Beats Music, an Apple music streaming service
* MTV Beats, music TV channel of India
* Beat 102 103, an Irish radio station

#### Other uses in music

* Beat (music), the basic time in music and music theory
* Beat music, a popular music genre
* Drum beat, a rhythmic pattern

### Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* Beat, an intentional pause for emphasis in comic timing
* Beats (video game), 2007
* Unit of action, or beat, in acting
* Beat Generation
* Beat Magazine

## People
### Given name

* Beat (name), a Swiss German male given name

### Surname

* Jackie Beat, drag persona of Kent Fuher (born 1963)
* Aone Beats (born 1984) Nigerian record producer
* Billy Beats (1871-1936) British footballer
* Cohen Beats (Michael Cohen, born 1986), Israeli record producer
* Eno Beats (Enock Kisakye, born 1991), Ugandan record producer
* Laxio Beats (Bernard Antwi-Darko, born 1987), Ghanaian record producer
* Mizz Beats (Iman Yanee, fl. from 2004), British record producer
* Rico Beats (Ricardo Lamarre, fl. from 2004), American record producer

## Transportation

* Beat (app), a ride-hailing app
* Beat, a model of the Daiichi Kosho Whisper paramotor
* Chevrolet Beat, a car
* Honda Beat, a car
* Honda FC50, or Honda Beat, a motor scooter

## Other uses

* Atlanta Beat, women's pro soccer teams (2001-02; 2009-11)
* 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 Dr. Dre, an American producer of audio products