Bear (disambiguation)

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A bear is a type of mammal.

Bear or Bears may also refer to:

Geography

• Bear, Arkansas, United States, an unincorporated place
• Bear, Delaware, United States, a census-designated place
• Bear (barony), County Cork, Ireland
• Bears, Friesland, Netherlands, a village
• Bear Cave, Romania
• Bear Brook (disambiguation)
• Bear Creek (disambiguation)
• Bear Island (disambiguation)
• Bear Mountain (disambiguation)
• Bear River (disambiguation)
• Bear Seamount, an underwater volcano in the Atlantic Ocean

Radio stations

• Touch FM (Stratford-upon-Avon) also known as The Bear 102, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
• CFBR-FM "100.3 The Bear", Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• CKNL-FM "101.5 The Bear", Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada
• CKQB-FM in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (CKQB-FM identified as "106.9 The Bear" from 1994 - 2009 and 2011 - 2014)
• CKRX-FM "102.3 The Bear", Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
• KQBR, Texas, United States
• WBRW, Virginia, United States
• WBYR, Indiana, United States
• WEKS "92.5 The Bear", Georgia, United States

Sports teams

Collegiate

• Brown University Bears, United States
• Baylor Bears, United States
• California Golden Bears, United States
• Central Arkansas Bears, United States
• Missouri State Bears, United States
• NYIT Bears, United States
• The teams of the University of Northern Colorado, United States

Professional

• Brisbane Bears, an Australian rules football club
• Chicago Bears, an American football team
• Coventry Bears, an English rugby league football club
• Hershey Bears, an American hockey team
• North Sydney Bears, an Australian rugby league football club
• Oldham Bears, defunct English rugby league football club
• Doosan Bears, a KBO League Baseball club

People

• Bear (surname), any of several people with this family name
• Bear (nickname), any of several people nicknamed "Bear" or "the Bear"

Film, stage, and television

• The Bear (1984 film), an American biopic about football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
• The Bear (1988 film), a French adventure-drama
• The Bear (1998 film), a British animated television short
• The Bear (2012 film), an Iranian film (original release Khers)
• The Bear (opera), by William Walton
• The Bear (play), by Anton Chekhov
• Bear (2010 film), a US natural horror film
• Bear (2011 film), a black comedy short film by Nash Edgerton
• Bears (film), a 2014 Disneynature film
• "Bears", an episode of the television series Zoboomafoo
• Brother Bear, a 2003 Disney animated film
  • Brother Bear 2, its sequel
• The Bear (Bo' Selecta!), a comic character created by Leigh Francis
• Bear, a big orange bear from the TV series Bear in the Big Blue House
• Bear, a character from the TV series WordWorld

Literature

• The Bear (fairy tale)
• Bear (novel), by Marian Engel
• "The Bear", a short story by William Faulkner in the collection Go Down, Moses
• Bear (comics), by Jamie Smart
• Bear, a Railway Series character
• Bear, a character from .hack, a multimedia franchise

Music

• Symphony No. 82 (Haydn), popularly known as the Bear Symphony
• The Bears (band), an American power pop band formed in 1985
• The Bear (album), by Element Eighty
• "Bear" (song), by indie rock band The Antlers

In the military

• Tupolev Tu-95, a bomber aircraft, NATO reporting name "Bear"
• USS Bear (1874), a forerunner of modern icebreaker ships
• USCGC Bear (WMEC-901), a Coast Guard cutter
• BEAR (Beam Experiments Aboard a Rocket), a U.S. experimental particle-beam weapon
• Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, a humanoid military robot

Other uses

• Pedo bear, in Internel meme.
• Bear market, in economics, a general decline in a stock market
• The Russian Bear, symbolizing Russia
• "Bear", a 1984 TV ad known for its "bear in the woods" line, for presidential candidate Ronald Reagan
• Water bear, another name for the microanimal tardigrade
• Bear (grape)
• Bere (grain), which can also be spelt 'bear'
• The Gentlemen Bears, drinking and dining society of St Edmund's College, Cambridge
• Bear (Boy Scouts of America), an achievement level
• BEAR and LION ciphers
• Bear (gay culture)
• Bear Inn, Oxford, England
• Bear Inn, Cowbridge, Wales
• Microsoft Bear, a project mascot
• Nestlé Bear Brand, a powdered milk and sterilized milk brand

See also

• Big Bear (disambiguation)
• Little Bear (disambiguation)
• Bär (disambiguation)
• Baer (disambiguation)
• Bare (disambiguation)
• Behr (disambiguation)
• Bruin (disambiguation)