Baton may refer to:

Stick-like objects

  • Baton, a type of club
  • Baton (law enforcement)
  • Baston (weapon), a type of baton used in Arnis and Filipino Martial Arts
  • Baton charge, a coordinated tactic for dispersing crowds of people
  • Baton (conducting), a short thin stick used for directing a musical performance
  • Baton (military), a symbolic attribute of military or other office
  • Baton (running), an object transferred by runners in a relay race
  • Baton sinister, a mark of cadency in heraldry
  • Baton twirling, a gymnastic sport that uses hand-held sticks
  • Baton, a smaller version of a baguette
  • Baton, in stick juggling, the central stick, which is manipulated with the side-sticks (control sticks)
  • Baton, another word for a batonette, a culinary knife cut
  • Batons, in the keyboard of a carillon, the stick-like keys used to play the bells
  • Batons (suit) in Latin-style card decks, including tarot
  • Suit of wands in tarot cartomancy

People

  • Baton (mythology), a mythological charioteer of ancient Greece
  • Baton of Sinope, 3rd-century BCE historian
  • Baton of Athens, 3rd-century BCE comic poet

Other uses

  • BATON, a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States to secure all types of classified information
  • Baton (2009 film), a Japanese animated science fiction film by Ryuhei Kitamura
  • Baton (2026 film), an American sports drama film by Danny Ramirez
  • Baton Bob, a costumed street performer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia
  • Baton Broadcasting, a Canadian broadcaster that is the predecessor to present-day Bell Media
  • Baton Broadcasting System, a defunct television system owned by Baton Broadcasting Inc.
  • Baton Bunny, a Bugs Bunny cartoon of the Looney Tunes series produced in 1958
  • BATON Overlay or Balanced Tree Over-lay Network, a distributed tree structure for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems
  • Baton Records, a record label
  • Baton River, a river in the Tasman District of New Zealand

See also

  • Baton Rouge (disambiguation)
  • Batton, a surname
  • Bato (Illyrian name), a name sometimes rendered in ancient Greek as "Baton"
  • Batten (disambiguation)
  • Batong (disambiguation)
  • Batoni (disambiguation)