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:

    “When you gonna get married, Marty? You should be ashamed of yourself. All your brothers and sisters, younger than you, they get married and got the children. I meet your mother in the produce store. She say to me “Eh, you know a nice girl for my boy Marty?” What’s the matter with you? That’s no way!”
    —Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)

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