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Beat, beats or beating may refer to:

Common meanings[edit]

Assigned activity or area[edit]

• 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

Hitting or physical violence[edit]

• Assault, when distinguished from battery, the crime of attempting to physically attack another
• Battery (crime), the crime of physically attacking another
• Corporal punishment, punishment inflicted by physical assault
• Strike (attack), repeatedly striking a person or object

Prevail or win[edit]

• Victory to win, outdo, outfox or otherwise achieve a victory over another (or the odds)

Music[edit]

• 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

People with the name[edit]

• Beat (name), a German male given name
• Jackie Beat (born 1963) on stage drag persona
• Aone Beats (born 1984) Nigerian record producer
• Billy Beats (1871-1936) British soccer player
• Cohen Beats (born 1986) Israeli record producer
• Eno Beats (born 1991) Ugandan record producer
• Laxio Beats (born 1987) Ghanaian record producer
• Mizz Beats, UK record producer
• Rico Beats, US record producer

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Fictional entities[edit]

• Beat, a character from Eternal Sonata
• Beat, a character from Jet Set Radio
• Beat, a character originating in The World Ends with You
• Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man series

Films[edit]

• Beat (1997 film), a 1997 South Korean gangster film
• Beat (1998 film), a 1998 Japanese film
• Beat (2000 film), a film about writer William Seward Burroughs
• Beat (TV Series), a 2018 German TV thriller series
• Beats (2019 Scottish film), a 2019 Scottish film directed by Brian Welsh
• Beats (2019 American film), a 2019 American film directed by Chris Robinson

Music[edit]

Groups[edit]

• Beat (band), a Finnish band, who formed in 1979
• The Beat (British band), a ska band, who formed in 1978, from Birmingham

Albums[edit]

• Beat (Bowery Electric album), a 1996 album
• Beat (King Crimson album), a 1982 album

Music channels[edit]

• Beats 1, an internet music radio station operated by Apple Inc.
• Beats Music, Apple Inc. music streaming service
• MTV Beats, music television channel of India
• The Beat 99.9 FM, Lagos, Nigeria; a music radio station
• Beat 102 103 (FM-102 & FM-103), Irish radio station

Songs[edit]

• "The Beat", a song by Basshunter from LOL, 2006
• "Beats", a 2019 song by AJR from Neotheater

Other uses in music[edit]

• Beat (acoustics), volume fluctuations due to interference between sounds of different frequencies
• "Beat" (song), 2005, by Kaela Kimura
• Beat music, a rock music genre that developed in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s
• Drum beat
• 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

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

• Beat (filmmaking), the smallest unit of dramatic action in a play, typically an exchange of behavior between characters in a script
• Beat, an intentional pause for emphasis in comic timing
• Beat Generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature
• Beat Museum, San Francisco, California, USA; a museum about the Beat Generation literature
• Beats (video game), a 2007 video game for PlayStation Portable
• Beat 'em up (video game genre)
• Unit of action, also called a beat

Brands and enterprises[edit]

• Beat (drink), a drink manufactured by the Coca-Cola Company in Mexico
• Beats Electronics, American producer of audio products, such as the Beats by Dr. Dre headphones

Transportation[edit]

• Beat, a model of the Japanese Daiichi Kosho Whisper paramotor
• Chevrolet Beat, a concept car providing the basis for the Daewoo Matiz M300
• Chevrolet Beat, the version of the Chevrolet Spark localized for the Indian market
• Honda Beat, a 1991–1996 roadster
• Honda FC50, a 50cc motor scooter also called "The Beat"
• Beat (app), a ride-hailing app with operations in Europe and Latin America.

Other uses[edit]

• Beat (charity), a British charity that supports people with eating disorders
• Beat, a time unit of Swatch Internet Time
• Beating against the wind, a sailing manoeuvre using tacking to travel upwind

See also[edit]

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• Beet, a plant and vegetable
• Saint-Béat, Haute-Garonne, France; a commune
• Beate (given name)
• Beats International, UK electronica band
• Dr. Beat (1984 single) song by Miami Sound Machine
• New Beat, Belgian underground music genre
• Up beat (disambiguation)
• Downbeat (disambiguation)
• Big beat (disambiguation)
• Back Beat (disambiguation)
• On the Beat (disambiguation)
• The Beat (disambiguation)
• Beat It (disambiguation)
• Beet (disambiguation)
• Police brutality, with individual incidents referred to as a “beating”
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