Scout
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Scout may refer to:
Youth movement
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Scout, to perform reconnaissance
Units
[edit]United States
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- Gilgit Baltistan Scouts, an internal security and border force in Pakistan
- Bajaur Scouts
- Chitral Scouts
Equipment
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]Aircraft
[edit]- Aeronca K Scout, an American light airplane first marketed in 1937
- Aeryon Scout, a small reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) designed and built in Canada
- American Champion Scout, a two-seat, high-wing, single-engined airplane that entered production in the U.S. in 1974
- Eagles Wing Scout, an American powered parachute
- Tennessee Propellers Scout, an American powered parachute design
Other transportation
[edit]- 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 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- 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