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:
“Among the interesting thing in camp are the boys. You recollect the boy in Captain McIlrath’s company; we have another like unto him in Captain Woodward’s. He ran away from Norwalk to Camp Dennison; went into the Fifth, then into the Guthries, and as we passed their camp, he was pleased with us, and now is “a boy of the Twenty-third.” He drills, plays officer, soldier, or errand boy, and is a curiosity in camp.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The medieval town, with frieze
Of boy scouts from Nagoya?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)