Squat, squatter or squatting may refer to:

Body position

  • Squatting position, a sitting position where one's knees are folded with heels touching one's buttocks or back of the thighs
  • Squat (exercise), a lower-body exercise in strength and conditioning

Computing and the Internet

  • Cybersquatting, refers to registering Internet domain names similar to popular trademarks with the intent to extort the trademark holder
  • Squatting attack, a kind of computer attack

Law and property

  • Squatting, the occupation of abandoned or unused building without the permission of the owner
  • Squatting (Australian history), historical Australian term referring to settlers occupying Crown land in order to graze livestock

Media and entertainment

  • Squat, a species of Flanimal from the More Flanimals and other books in the series
  • Squat, the alternate name of the title character of Scott Adams' comic Plop: The Hairless Elbonian
  • Squats (song), a 2015 song credited to Oh Snap! and Bombs Away
  • Squatter (game), an Australian board game
  • Squatters (film), a 2014 movie starring Richard Dreyfuss
  • Squat (film), 2017 film directed by Samuel Matteau

Science

  • Squat effect, in hydrodynamics
  • Bob and squat, the pitching motion of bicycle suspensions when under acceleration

Other uses

  • Squatter pigeon (Geophaps scripta), a species of bird

See also