Bear (disambiguation)

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A bear is a carnivoran mammal of the family Ursidae.

Bear or Bears may also refer to:

Places[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Bear (surname), any of several people with this family name
• Bear (nickname), any of several people nicknamed "Bear" or "the Bear"
• Bear McCreary (born 1979), American musician

Arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

Characters[edit]

• 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
• King Bear, a recurring character in the Tara Duncan book series
• Bear, a character in the Adventure Time animated series episode "In Your Footsteps"
• Br'er Bear a character from the Disney picture film Song of the South

Films[edit]

• 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
• 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[edit]

• Bear (novel), by Marian Engel
• The Bear (fairy tale)
• The Bear (play), by Anton Chekhov
• "The Bear", a short story by William Faulkner from Go Down, Moses
• The Bear, a children's book by Raymond Briggs
• The Bear, a novel by Claire Cameron
• The Bear, a novel by Andrew Krivak
• Bear, a novel by Ben Queen

Music[edit]

• 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[edit]

• 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 (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, "105.3 the Bear", Blacksburg, Virginia, United States
• WBYR, "98.9 the Bear", Woodburn, Indiana, United States
• WEKS, "The Bear 92.5", Zebulon, Georgia, United States
• WNBB, "97.9 the Bear", Bayboro, North Carolina, United States
• WZGM, "96.1 the Bear", Black Mountain, North Carolina, United States

Other arts, entertainment, and media[edit]

• 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
• The Bear (TV series), a 2022 television series on FX on Hulu
• "Bears", a Series B episode of the television series QI (2004)
• "Bear", 4th episode of Servant (TV Series)

Brands and enterprises[edit]

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

Sports teams[edit]

Collegiate[edit]

• 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
• Northern Colorado Bears, United States
• NYIT Bears, United States
• Washington University Bears, United States

Professional[edit]

• 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, an English rugby league football club
• Pori Bears, a Finnish-based American football team

Military[edit]

• 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[edit]

• Bear (app), note-taking software
• Bear (Boy Scouts of America), an achievement level
• Bear (gay culture)
• Bear (grape)
• BEAR and LION ciphers
• Bear market, in economics
• Bere (grain), which can also be spelled "bear"
• Pedobear, an Internet meme
• Russian Bear, a symbol of Russia
• Water bear, another name for the microanimal tardigrade
• Bear, common name of the moth Lycia ursaria

See also[edit]

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

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