Scout

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Scout may refer to:

Youth movement

  • Scout (Scouting), a child, usually 10–18 years of age, participating in the worldwide Scouting movement
    • Scouts (The Scout Association), section for 10-14 year olds in the United Kingdom
    • Scouts BSA, section for 11 to 17 year olds in the United States of America
    • Scouts (Baden-Powell Scouts' Association), section is open to both boys and girls between the ages of 10–15 years, and are now formed into local Scout Troops
  • Scouting, Scouting Movement or Scout Movement
    • Traditional Scouting, a trend to return Scouting to traditional style and activities
    • World Organization of the Scout Movement, the international body for Scout organisations
    • The Scout Association, the national scout organisation for the United Kingdom
  • Scouting (magazine), a publication of the Boy Scouts of America

Military uses

  • Scout, to perform reconnaissance

Units

United States

  • Blazer's Scouts, a unit who conducted irregular warfare during the American Civil War
  • United States Army Indian Scouts, Native Americans who were active in the American West in the late 19th–early 20th centuries
    • Apache Scouts, part of the United States Army Indian Scouts, who performed most of their service during the Apache Wars
  • Cavalry scout, a reconnaissance specialist in the United States Army
  • Philippine Scouts, a military organization of the United States Army from 1901 to 1948
  • South Pacific Scouts, a jungle warfare unit formed during World War II from Fijians and Solomon Islanders
  • Scout Sniper, a reconnaissance specialist in the U.S. Marine Corps

United Kingdom and Commonwealth

  • Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland yeomanry regiment of the British Army in the Second Boer War
  • Grey's Scouts, a Rhodesian mounted infantry unit raised in 1975
  • Selous Scouts, a special forces regiment of the Rhodesian Army from 1973 to 1980

India

  • Ladakh Scouts, an Indian Army high mountain and border security regiment specialized for the Ladakh region
  • Arunachal Scouts, an Indian Army high mountain regiment specialized for the state of Arunachal Pradesh
  • Sikkim Scouts, an Indian Army regiment specialized for the state of Sikkim

Pakistan

Equipment

  • Scout (aircraft), pre-1920s (British) terminology for a single-seat fighter
  • Scout plane, a type of shipborne surveillance aircraft
  • Scout rifle, a class of general-purpose rifles
    • Steyr Scout, a modern scoped bolt-action rifle manufactured by Steyr Mannlicher
  • AD Scout, a fighter aircraft designed to defend Britain from Zeppelin bombers during World War I
  • IAI Scout, an unmanned air vehicle used by the Israel Defense Forces during the 1982 Lebanon War
  • Westland Scout, British military helicopter
  • HMS Scout, the name of various British Royal Navy ships
  • USS Scout, the name of various United States Navy ships
  • Ajax (armoured vehicle), formerly Scout SV, an armoured fighting vehicle

Occupations

  • Scout (association football), attends football matches to collect intelligence
  • Scout (sport), a professional sports talent-scout
  • Scout or bedder, a domestic assistant at Oxford University

Transportation

Aircraft

Other transportation

  • Scout (autonomous boat), an autonomous boat designed to complete a transatlantic crossing
  • Scout (train), a passenger train of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, inaugurated in 1916
  • Scout Motor Services, absorbed into Ribble Motor Services, both former bus operators in North West England
  • International Harvester Scout, an off-road vehicle which was produced from 1961 to 1980
  • Scout (automobile), a planned electric vehicle brand owned by Volkswagen Group

Arts and entertainment

  • Scout (1987 film), a 1987 British television film by Frank McGuinness in the anthology series ScreenPlay
  • Scout (comics), a comic book series by Timothy Truman, first published in 1985
  • Scout, a playable class type in the 2007 video game Team Fortress 2

Other uses

  • Scout (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name Scout
  • Scout (operating system), at the University of Arizona
  • Scout (rocket family), American launch vehicles designed to place small satellites into orbit around the Earth
  • Scout (travel website), a travel website
  • Scout.com, a sports publishing company
  • Mars Scout Program, a U.S. initiative to send a series of small, low-cost robotic missions to Mars
  • Scout, an education toy line of LeapFrog Enterprises
  • Scout, an appointed role following a Dutch parliamentary election to assist in the formation of a new government

See also

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Scout".
  • The Scout (disambiguation)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Scout
  • All pages with titles containing Scout
  • Guide (disambiguation)
  • Pioneer (disambiguation)
  • Indian scout (disambiguation)
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