Beat

Beat or beats may refer to:

Common usage

• Strike (attack), repeatedly striking a person or object
• Victory to win, outdo, outfox or otherwise achieve a victory over another (or the odds)
• Patrol, an area (usually geographic) that one is responsible to monitor, including:
  • Beat (police), the territory and time that a police officer patrols
  • Beat reporting, a subject of coverage by a journalist
  • Gay beat, an area frequented by men who have sex with men for the purpose of casual sex
  • Forest beat, in forestry administration, a divisional subunit of a Forest range
• The act of beating; battery

People

• Beat (name), a German male given name

Companies, brands and organisations

• Beat (charity), a British charity that supports people with eating disorders
• Beats Electronics, American producer of audio products, such as the Beats by Dr. Dre headphones
• Beat (drink), a drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company in Mexico

Film and theatre

• Beat (filmmaking), the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play
• Directorial beat, an exchange of behavior between characters in a script
• Unit of action, also called a beat
• Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs
• Beat (1998 film), a 1998 Japanese film
• Beat (1997 film), a 1997 South Korean gangster film

Music and acoustics

• Beat (acoustics), volume fluctuations due to interference between sounds of different frequencies
• Beat (music), the basic time unit or pulse in a piece of music representing one moment in time, or a segment of rhythm or cadence
• Beat music, a rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s
• Pulse (music), in music and music theory, beats in a (repeating) series of identical yet distinct periodic short-duration stimuli perceived as points in time occurring at the mensural level
• The Beat (British band), a ska band
• Beat (band), a Finnish band
• Beat (King Crimson album), 1982 album
• Beat (Bowery Electric album), a 1996 album
• "Beat" (Kaela Kimura song), 2005
• "Beat" (Ricky Dillon song), 2015

Video games

• Beat (video game character), a character from Jet Set Radio
• Beats (video game), a 2007 video game for PlayStation Portable
• Beat, a character from Eternal Sonata
• Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man series
• Beat, a character from The World Ends with You and Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance

Motor vehicles

• Beat, a model of the Japanese Daiichi Kosho Whisper paramotor
• Chevrolet Beat, a concept car providing the basis for the Daewoo Matiz M300
• Honda Beat, a 1991–1996 roadster
• Honda FC50, a 50cc motor scooter also called "The Beat"

Other

• Beating, in sailing upwind close-hauled with the wind coming from one side and then tacking
• beat, a time unit of Swatch Internet Time
• Beat, an intentional pause for emphasis in comic timing

See also

• Beat Generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature
• The Beat (disambiguation)
• Downbeat (disambiguation)
• On the Beat (disambiguation)
• Beet, a plant