Professional occupations

• Bodyguard
  Bodyguard
  A bodyguard is a type of security operative or government agent who protects a person—usually a famous, wealthy, or politically important figure—from assault, kidnapping, assassination, stalking, loss of confidential information, terrorist attack or other threats.Most important public figures such...
  
  , who protects an individual from personal assault
• Crossing guard
  Crossing guard
  A crossing guard , a school crossing patrol officer , school crossing supervisor or school road patrol is a traffic management specialist who is normally stationed on busy roadways to aid pedestrians...
  
  , who stops traffic so pedestrians can cross the street
• Life guard, who rescues people from drowning
• Prison guard, who supervises prisoners in a prison or jail
• Security guard
  Security guard
  A security guard is a person who is paid to protect property, assets, or people. Security guards are usually privately and formally employed personnel...
  
  , who protects property, assets, or people
• Train conductor, in the UK, Australia, and New Zealand

Governmental and military

• Guards units were elite soldiers, infantry or cavalry
• Border guard
  Border guard
  The border guard, frontier guard, border patrol, border police, or frontier police of a country is a national security agency that performs border control, i.e., enforces the security of the country's national borders....
  
  , a state security agency.
• Civic guard
  Civic Guard
  Civic Guard may refer to:* Garda Síochána in Ireland* Schutterij in the Netherlands...
  
  /civil guard
  Civil Guard
  The Civil Guard , often abbreviated in Hebrew to Mash'az is a volunteer organization of Israeli citizens which assists in daily police work. It is a subdivision of the Israel Police.-Organization:...
  
  , a police force.
• Coast guard
  Coast guard
  A coast guard or coastguard is a national organization responsible for various services at sea. However the term implies widely different responsibilities in different countries, from being a heavily armed military force with customs and security duties to being a volunteer organization tasked with...
  
  , responsible for coastal defence and offshore rescue.
• Honor Guard
  Honor guard
  An honor guard, or ceremonial guard, is a ceremonial unit, usually military in nature and composed of volunteers who are carefully screened for their physical ability and dexterity...
  
  , primarily ceremonial.
• National Guard (disambiguation), primarily domestic defense units which have military or law enforcement missions

Sports

• Guard (American football)
  Guard (American football)
  In American and Canadian football, a guard is a player that lines up between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a football team....
  
  , a player between the center and the tackles on the offensive line of a team
• Guard (grappling)
  Guard (grappling)
  The guard is a ground grappling position where one combatant has their back to the ground, while attempting to control the other combatant using the legs...
  
  , a position in martial arts in which the person lies on the back, is confronted by the opponent aligned on top facing him/her, but has his/her legs entangling the opponent for control.
• basketball position
  • Point guard
    Point guard
    Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...
    
    , or "playmaker"
  • Shooting guard
    Shooting guard
    The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...
    
    , or "off guard"
• In historical swordmanship color guard (flag spinning), or "guard" was a defensive position.
• Guard colorguard People who toss flags, spin a rifle and a sabre at performances with or with out a marching band. The colorguard is a non-musical section that provides additional visual aspects to the performance

Others

• Guard (computing)
  Guard (computing)
  In computer programming, a guard is a boolean expression that must evaluate to true if the program execution is to continue in the branch in question. The term is used at least in Haskell, Clean, Erlang, occam, Promela, OCaml and Scala programming languages. In Mathematica, guards are called...
  
  , in programming language, an expression that directs program execution
• Guard (weapon), part of the handle of a sword designed to stop the user's hand from slipping onto the blade
• Guard dog
  Guard dog
  A guard dog, an attack dog or watch dog is a dog used to guard against, and watch for, unwanted or unexpected people or animals. The dog is discriminating so that it does not annoy or attack familiar people.-Barking:...
  
  , employed to watch for unwanted or unexpected animals or people
• Guard interval
  Guard interval
  In telecommunications, guard intervals are used to ensure that distinct transmissions do not interfere with one another. These transmissions may belong to different users or to the same user ....
  
  , intervals in transmission, used in telecommunications
• In buildings, a "guard" can mean a Safety barrier to stop people from falling into hazards such as into a fire or off a raised walking surface
• Abdominal guarding
  Abdominal guarding
  Abdominal guarding is the tensing of the abdominal wall muscles to guard inflamed organs within the abdomen from the pain of pressure upon them. The tensing is detected when the abdominal wall is pressed...
  
  , in medicine, the tensing of the abdominal wall muscles to guard inflamed organs
• The aircraft emergency frequency
  Aircraft emergency frequency
  The aircraft emergency frequency is a frequency used on the aircraft radio band reserved for emergency communications for aircraft in distress. The frequencies are 121.5 MHz for civilian, also known as International Air Distress and 243.0 MHz for military use, also known as Military Air...
  
  , commonly referred to as "guard"
• Mate guarding—guarding of a potential or former mate from other individuals

See also

• The Guard (disambiguation)
• Guardian (disambiguation)
• Sentry (disambiguation)
• Sentinel (disambiguation)