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Beat, beats or beating may refer to:

Common meanings

Assigned activity or area

  • 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
    • Forest beat, in forestry administration, a divisional sub unit of a Forest range
    • Gay beat, an area frequented by men who have sex with men for the purpose of casual sex

Hitting or physical violence

Prevail or win

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

People with the name

  • 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

Fictional entities

  • Beat, a character from Eternal Sonata
  • Beat, a character from Jet Set Radio
  • Beat, a character from Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance and The World Ends with You
  • Beat, a robot bird in the Mega Man series

Films

  • 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

Groups

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

Albums

Music channels

  • 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

Other uses in music

  • 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" (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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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)
  • All pages with titles containing Beat or Beats
  • All pages with titles beginning with Beat
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