Bat (disambiguation) explained

A bat is a flying mammal of the order Chiroptera.

Bat or The Bat may also refer to:

Computing

• Bat (metasyntactic variable), a placeholder name
• The Bat!, an email client by RitLabs for Microsoft Windows
• .bat, file extension for a batch file

Film

• The Bat (1926 film), a silent film
• The Bat (1959 film)

Literature

• The Bat (play), a 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
• The Bat (novel), a 1997 detective novel by Jo Nesbø
• The Bat (pulp fiction character), a character in short stories by Johnston McCulley

Military

• McDonnell XP-67 Bat, a U.S. Army Air Forces experimental fighter
• Bat (guided bomb), developed by the U.S. during World War II
• HMS Bat, a Royal Navy destroyer
• USS Bat (1864), a steamer captured by the U.S. during the American Civil War
• Northrop Grumman Bat, an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman
• Bat bomb, an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States
• ASM-N-2 Bat, the first guided munition deployed in WWII by the United States

Roller coasters

• Bat (Lagoon), a roller coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park, Utah, United States
• The Bat (Canada's Wonderland), a roller coaster, Ontario, Canada
• The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1981), a defunct roller coaster at Kings Island, Ohio, United States
• The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1993), previously known as Top Gun and Flight Deck, a roller coaster at Kings Island, Ohio, United States

Sports

• Bat, the club-like implement used to hit the ball in bat-and-ball games
  • Baseball bat
  • Cricket bat
    • • • Bat, an alternative name for a racket
  • Table tennis racket or bat
• Bolo bat

Other uses

• Bat (goddess), in Egyptian mythology
• Bat (heraldry)
• Bat Motor Manufacturing Co., former manufacturer
• One-hitter (smoking) or bat
• Baltic languages's ISO 639-2 code
• Bar and Bat Mitzvah, a coming of age ceremony in Judaism, with "bat" meaning daughter in Hebrew
• Turkish cold bulgur soup, a soup also known as Bat in the Turkish language
• Bat Masterson (1853–1921), gunfighter, lawman, sports reporter

See also

• BAT (disambiguation)
• Bats (disambiguation)
• Batman (disambiguation)
• Batt (disambiguation)
• Batu (given name) or Bat, a Mongol-Turkic given name
• La Chauve-Souris (The Bat), a Russian-French touring revue in the early 1900s
• Die Fledermaus (The Bat), an 1874 comic operetta by Johann Strauss II