Swat
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Swat or SWAT may refer to:
- SWAT, specialized Special Weapons and Tactics units in many United States police departments
- Swat (Pakistan), the valley, district or town in the basin of the Swat River
- Swat River, a river in northern Pakistan
- Swat, a princely state which existed in the north of the modern North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan until 1969
- SWAT series, a series of videogames where the player assumes the role of a SWAT team member
- S.W.A.T. (TV series), a 1970s TV series
- S.W.A.T. (film), a 2003 movie based on the series
- SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron, an animated series
- Students Working Against Tobacco
- SAMBA Web Administration Tool, a tool for configuring SAMBA
- Swarthmore College
- E-Swat, a Sega System 16 video game
- SWAT: Virus Hunters A web series produced by Howling Audio/Video Productions
Swat may also refer to:
- a hard stroke, hit or blow, e.g. as part of a spanking, as in trading swats; hence the verb: to swat
- a slang term for a block in basketball, mostly because the blocking actions in basketball are like swatting movements
- the related verb to swat means to hit or to beat off, e.g. insects, as with a flat instrument, hence fly swatter
