A flashlight is a portable hand-held electric light. There are many types of flashlights, one of the most common has a cylindrical shape with a cone on one end which contains the light bulb.

Not to be confused with

• fleshlight, which is a penetrable sex toy.
• torch, which is what flashlights are called in British English.

See also

• light - For general presence of a light source in the image
• light_beam
• lighting - For images that specifically render out lighting for added three-dimensionality, as opposed to line_art and flat_colors images for example, that can have a stylized light source present