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
  • Tropine benzilate
  • Brown adipose tissue

See also

  • BAT (disambiguation)
  • Bats (disambiguation)
  • Batman, a DC Comics superhero character
  • 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