Beat may refer to:

In music:

• Beat (music), a pulse of sound that marks the metre, rhythm or riddim of a piece of music
• Beat (hip hop), a produced hip hop composition for MCs to rap over
• Beatmatching, the aligning of the tempos of the songs by DJs
• The Beat (band), a UK ska band of the early 1980s known in the US as The English Beat
• The Beat (US), also known as The Paul Collins Beat, an American power pop group from the late '70s
• Beat (King Crimson album), an album by progressive rock group King Crimson
• Beat (TV-2 album), a 1983 album by the Danish band TV-2

In literature:

• Meter (poetry), the linguistic sound patterns of verse
• Beat generation, writers of beat poetry and other beat literature

In science:

• Beat (acoustics), the oscillation between zero intensity and full intensity that occurs when two frequencies (which are not harmonically related) are added together, caused by alternating constructive and destructive interference of the pressure waves

Miscellaneous:

• Beat (name), a name commonly used in German-speaking countries, mostly Switzerland
• .beat, the unit of the Swatch Internet Time
• Beat, the territory and time that a police officer patrols. This is derived from the idea of repeatedly hitting the same ground with the feet.
• Gay beat, an area frequented by gay men for the purpose of casual sex
• Sailing upwind or beating, sailing a sailboat against the wind direction.
• Beat is a robot bird in the Mega Man series of games

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