Baton

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

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