A bat is a flying mammal of the order Chiroptera.
Bat or The Bat may also refer to:
Computing Bat (metasyntactic variable), a placeholder name The Bat!, an email client by RitLabs for Microsoft Windows .bat, file extension for a batch file
Film The Bat (1926 film), a silent film The Bat (1959 film)
Literature The Bat (play), a 1920 play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood The Bat (novel), a 1997 detective novel by Jo Nesbø The Bat (pulp fiction character), a character in short stories by Johnston McCulley
Military McDonnell XP-67 Bat, a U.S. Army Air Forces experimental fighter Bat (guided bomb), developed by the U.S. during World War II HMS Bat, a Royal Navy destroyer USS Bat (1864), a steamer captured by the U.S. during the American Civil War Northrop Grumman Bat, an unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman Bat bomb, an experimental World War II weapon developed by the United States ASM-N-2 Bat, the first guided munition deployed in WWII by the United States
Roller coasters Bat (Lagoon), a roller coaster at Lagoon Amusement Park, Utah, United States The Bat (Canada's Wonderland), a roller coaster, Ontario, Canada The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1981), a defunct roller coaster at Kings Island, Ohio, United States The Bat (Kings Island; opened 1993), previously known as Top Gun and Flight Deck, a roller coaster at Kings Island, Ohio, United States
Sports Bat, the club-like implement used to hit the ball in bat-and-ball games Baseball bat Cricket bat
Bat, an alternative name for a racket Table tennis racket or bat Bolo bat
Other uses Bat (goddess), in Egyptian mythology Bat (heraldry) Bat Motor Manufacturing Co., former manufacturer One-hitter (smoking) or bat Baltic languages's ISO 639-2 code Bar and bat mitzvah, a coming of age ceremony in Judaism, with "bat" meaning daughter in Hebrew Turkish cold bulgur soup, a soup also known as Bat in the Turkish language Bat Masterson (1853–1921), gunfighter, lawman, sports reporter Tropine benzilate Brown adipose tissue
See also BAT (disambiguation) Bats (disambiguation) Batman, a DC Comics superhero character Batman (disambiguation) Batt (disambiguation) Batu (given name) or Bat, a Mongol-Turkic given name La Chauve-Souris (The Bat), a Russian-French touring revue in the early 1900s Die Fledermaus (The Bat), an 1874 comic operetta by Johann Strauss II