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A bat is a flying mammal in the Chiroptera order.

Bat(s) may also refer to:

Sports

• Baseball bat, cylindrical club used in the game of baseball
• Cricket bat, flattened club used in the game of cricket
• Louisville Bats, an AAA minor league baseball team based in Louisville, Kentucky

Entertainment

• B.A.T., or Bureau of Astral Troubleshooters, a 1992 computer game
• The Bat (1926 film), a silent film based on a play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood
• The Bat (1959 film), based on the same Rinehart/Hopwood play
• Bats (film) (1999), starring Lou Diamond Phillips and Bob Gunton
• The Bats, a New Zealand rock band
• Die Fledermaus, "The Bat", 1874 comic operetta
• Le Chauve-Souris, "The Bat", a touring revue during the early 1900s

Computers

• Bat (metasyntactic variable), a placeholder name
• The Bat!, an email client by RitLabs for Microsoft Windows
• Batch file, filename extension .BAT, a command program in MS-DOS, OS/2, and Windows

Military

• Bat (guided bomb), developed by the U.S. during World War II
• HMS Bat, two Royal Navy ships
• Brilliant Anti-Tank (BAT), a U.S. munition made by Northrop Grumman
• Biometric Automated Tool, a military system that uses Biometric identification

Roller coasters

• Bat (Lagoon), a roller coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park in Utah
• The Bat (Canada's Wonderland), a roller coaster in Ontario
• The Bat (Kings Island), a roller coaster at Kings Island in Ohio

Transportation

• Alfa Romeo BAT, a series of concept cars by Alfa Romeo
• BAT Community Connector, bus system in Bangor, Maine
• Brockton Area Transit Authority, in Massachusetts, U.S.
• British Aerial Transport, an early aircraft manufacturer

Other uses

• BAT (G.I. Joe), or Battle Android Troopers, robots in the G.I. Joe universe
• Bat (goddess), in Egyptian mythology, a deification of the Milky Way
• Bat mitzvah, coming of age of a Jewish girl
• Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study, a long-term oceanographic study site
• Best Available Technology, in pollutant regulation
• Blunt abdominal trauma, a medical term for an injury
• British American Tobacco, tobacco company based in London, England
• British Antarctic Territory, a sector of Antarctica claimed by the UK
• Brown adipose tissue, or brown fat
• Burst Alert Telescope, an x-ray telescope use on the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
• Baltic languages, ISO 639-2 code is bat
• Bats, Landes, a commune in France
• BATS Improv, an improvisational theatre company in San Francisco
• Bats people, a small Nakh-speaking community in the country of Georgia

See also

• Batman (disambiguation)

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