Baton

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Baton (via French bâton = "stick" from Late Latin bastum = "stout staff", probably of Gaulish origin) refers to several types of cylindrical or tapered instruments composed of a wide variety of materials (finished, not wood in the natural state), with differing functions:

  • Baton (also called a billy club, nightstick, or riot stick), a type of striking/parrying weapon typically used by police, military or security personnel
  • Baton (symbol), a symbolic attribute of military or other office
  • A baton is used in heraldry as a mark of cadency.
  • Conductors use light-weight batons for directing an orchestra, choir or mixed performers
  • Batons are carried by runners in a Relay race
  • Batons are light metal rods that are used for keeping time, twirling, and juggling in marching band and parade performances
  • The center stick of a set of Devil sticks, manipulated by jugglers
  • Baton also refers to movable horizontal pipes hung in a theatre from which lights or scenery are hung

Other users of the word Baton include:

Baton may also refer to one of several people:

  • Baton (Bato) was an Illyrian given name for males
  • Baton was the name of a Dardanian king in the 4th century BC
  • Baton from Pannonia was one of three leaders of the Illyrian uprising against the Romans in Pannonia and Dalmatia in 6 AD
  • Baton from Dalmatia was one of three leaders of the Illyrian uprising against the Romans in Dalmatia and Pannonia in 6 AD.


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