Beat Explained

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

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

See also

• • • The Beat (disambiguation)
• Back Beat (disambiguation)
• Beat It (disambiguation)
• Beet (disambiguation)
• Big beat (disambiguation)
• Downbeat (disambiguation)
• On the Beat (disambiguation)
• Upbeat (disambiguation)
• Beat Generation, a literary movement
• Beat reporting, a genre of journalism
• Beat 'em up, a video game genre
• Beate, a given name
• Beats International, a British dance music band and hip-hop collective
• Beetroot, or beet, or beets, a vegetable
• "Dr. Beat", a 1984 single by Miami Sound Machine
• New beat, Belgian underground music genre
• Saint-Béat, a place in Haute-Garonne, France