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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 light metal rod used for keeping time, twirling in competitions, etc.
• 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), one of the four suits of playing card in the standard Latin deck
• Suit of wands, Batons in the tarot card

Other uses

• BATON, a Type 1 block cipher, used by the United States to secure all types of classified information
• Baton Bob, a costumed street performer currently based in Atlanta, Georgia
• Baton Broadcasting, a Canadian broadcaster, now owned by CTVglobemedia
• 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
• Batten (disambiguation)
• Batong (disambiguation)
• Batoni (disambiguation)