Boy Scouts

A Boy Scout is a member of a Scouting organization. There are thousands of national Scouting organizations or federations; these are grouped into six international Scouting associations with some non-aligned organizations. Many of these use Boy Scouts in their name, including:

  • World Organization of the Scout Movement
    • List of World Organization of the Scout Movement members
  • World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
    • List of World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts members
  • Union Internationale des Guides et Scouts d′Europe
  • World Federation of Independent Scouts
  • Order of World Scouts
  • Confédération Européenne de Scoutisme
  • List of non-aligned Scouting organizations
  • Many Scouting organizations have a Boy Scouts section, or Scout section, see: Age groups in Scouting and Guiding

Famous quotes containing the words boy and/or scouts:

    “A demanding stranger arrived one morning in a small town and asked a boy on the sidewalk of the main street, “Boy, where’s the post office?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Well, then, where might the drugstore be?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “How about a good cheap hotel?”
    “I don’t know.”
    “Say, boy, you don’t know much, do you?”
    “No, sir, I sure don’t. But I ain’t lost.””
    —William Harmon (b. 1938)

    “The medieval town, with frieze
    Of boy scouts from Nagoya?”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)