Bear (disambiguation)

A bear is a type of mammal.

Bear or Bears may also refer to:

Places

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

People

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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Characters

Bear, the main character from the TV series Bear in the Big Blue House
Bear, a character from the TV series WordWorld
Bear, a Railway Series character
Bear, a character from .hack, a multimedia franchise
The Bear (Bo' Selecta!), a comic character created by Leigh Francis

Films

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
The Bear (1938 film), a Soviet drama film
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)

Literature

Bear (novel), by Marian Engel
The Bear (fairy tale)
The Bear (play), by Anton Chekhov
"The Bear", a short story by William Faulkner in his collection Go Down, Moses
The Bear, a children's book by Raymond Briggs

Music

The Bears (band), an American power pop band formed in 1985
- The Bears (album), 1987
Symphony No. 82 (Haydn), popularly known as the Bear Symphony
The Bear (album), by Element Eighty

Radio stations

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
Touch FM (Stratford-upon-Avon) also known as The Bear 102, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
WBRW, Virginia, United States
WBYR, Indiana, United States
WEKS, "92.5 The Bear", Georgia, United States
WNBB, Bayboro, North Carolina, United States

Other arts, entertainment, and media

Bear (comics), by Jamie Smart
"Bear", a 1984 TV ad known for its "bear in the woods" line, for presidential candidate Ronald Reagan
"Bears", an episode of the television series Zoboomafoo
The Bear (opera), by William Walton

Brands and enterprises

Bear (St. Paul's Churchyard), a historical bookseller in London
Bear Inn, Cowbridge, Wales
Bear Inn, Oxford, England
Microsoft Bear, a project mascot
Nestlé Bear Brand, a powdered milk and sterilized milk brand

Sports teams

Collegiate

Baylor Bears, United States
Brown Bears, United States
California Golden Bears, United States
Central Arkansas Bears, United States
Mercer Bears, United States
Missouri State Bears, United States
Morgan 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
Doosan Bears, a KBO League Baseball club
Hershey Bears, an American hockey team
North Sydney Bears, an Australian rugby league football club
Oldham Bears, defunct English rugby league football club

Military

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

Other uses

Bear (Boy Scouts of America), an achievement level
Bear (gay culture)
Bear (grape)
BEAR and LION ciphers
Bear market, in economics, a general decline in a stock market
Bere (grain), which can also be spelled "bear"
Pedobear, an Internet meme
Russian Bear, a symbol of Russia
The Gentlemen Bears, drinking and dining society of St Edmund's College, Cambridge
Water bear, another name for the microanimal tardigrade
Bear, common name of the moth Lycia ursaria

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