Bear (disambiguation)

A bear is a carnivoran mammal of the family Ursidae.

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
• Bears, Friesland, Netherlands, a village
• Bear Brook (disambiguation)
• Bear Creek (disambiguation)
• Bear Island (disambiguation)
• Bear Mountain (disambiguation)
• Bear River (disambiguation)
• Bear Seamount, an underwater volcano in the Atlantic Ocean
• Bears' Cave, Romania

Anthroponymy

• Bear (given name)
• Bear (surname), including a list of people with the name
• Bear (nickname), including a list of people with the nickname

Arts, entertainment and media

Characters

• Bear, the main character from the TV series Bear in the Big Blue House
• Bear, a major character in The Railway Series
• Bear, a character from the .hack multimedia franchise
• Bear, a character from the TV series WordWorld
• Bear, a character in the Adventure Time animated series episode "In Your Footsteps"
• The Bear (Bo' Selecta!), a comic character created by Leigh Francis
• Br'er Bear, a character from the Disney picture film Song of the South
• King Bear, a recurring character in the Tara Duncan book series

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
• 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, 1976
• Bear, a graphic novel by Ben Queen, 2021
• The Bear (fairy tale)
• The Bear, a children's book by Raymond Briggs, 1994
• The Bear, a novel by Claire Cameron, 2014
• The Bear (play), by Anton Chekhov, 1888
• "The Bear", a short story by William Faulkner from Go Down, Moses, 1942
• "The Bear", a short story by Stephen King that was later incorporated into The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands, 1991
• The Bear, a novel by Andrew Krivak, 2020

Music

• The Bear (album), by Element Eighty, 2005
• 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
• Bear McCreary (born 1979), an American composer of soundtracks for film, television and games

Radio stations

Canada

• CFBR-FM, "100.3 The Bear", Edmonton, Alberta
• CKNL-FM, "101.5 The Bear", Fort St. John, British Columbia
• CKQB-FM (identified as "106.9 The Bear" from 1994–2009 and 2011–2014), in Ottawa, Ontario
• CKRX-FM, "102.3 The Bear", Fort Nelson, British Columbia

United States

• KQBR, "99.5 The Bear" (1999–2012), Lubbock, Texas
• WBRW, "105.3 the Bear", Blacksburg, Virginia
• WBYR, "98.9 the Bear", Woodburn, Indiana
• WEKS, "The Bear 92.5", Zebulon, Georgia
• WNBB, "97.9 the Bear", Bayboro, North Carolina
• WZGM, "96.1 the Bear", Black Mountain, North Carolina

Elsewhere

• Touch FM (Stratford-upon-Avon), "The Bear 102", England

Television

• "Bear", a 1984 presidential candidate Ronald Reagan ad, known for its "bear in the woods" line
• "Bear", an episode of Servant
• The Bear (TV series), a 2022 television series on FX on Hulu
  • "The Bear" (The Bear episode), a 2023 episode of The Bear
  • "Bears" (The Bear), a 2025 episode of The Bear
• "Bears", a 2004 episode of QI
• "Bears", an episode of the series Zoboomafoo

Other arts, entertainment and media

• Bear (comics), by Jamie Smart
• The Bear (opera), by William Walton
• Bear Magazine, a gay and bisexual men's periodical

Sports teams

Collegiate

United States

Note: sorted by state name

• Central Arkansas Bears and Sugar Bears
• California Golden Bears
• Northern Colorado Bears
• Mercer Bears, Georgia
• Morgan State Bears, Maryland
• Missouri State Bears and Lady Bears
• Washington University Bears, Missouri
• NYIT Bears, New York
• Brown Bears, Rhode Island
• Baylor Bears, Texas

Professional

Rugby

• Bristol Bears; South West England, England; rugby union
• Coventry Bears; West Midlands, England; rugby league
• North Sydney Bears; New South Wales, Australia; rugby league
• Oldham Bears; Greater Manchester, England; rugby league
• Perth Bears; Western Australia; rugby league

Other kinds of football

• Brisbane Bears; Queensland, Australia; Australian rules football
• Chicago Bears; Illinois, United States; American football
• Pori Bears; Satakunta, Finland; American football

Other sports

• Doosan Bears; Seoul, South Korea; baseball
• Hershey Bears; Pennsylvania, United States; hockey

Military

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

Food and drink

• Bere (grain) or bear, a barley cultivar
• The Bear, Oxford, England
• Bear (grape), a wine grape variety
• Nestlé Bear Brand, a powdered milk and sterilized milk brand

Computing

• Bear (app), note-taking software
• BEAR and LION ciphers, in cryptography
• Microsoft Bear, the mascot of the Windows 3.1 development team

Other uses

• Bear (St. Paul's Churchyard), a historical bookseller in London
• Bear Inn, Cowbridge, Wales
• Lycia ursaria, common name "Bear", a species of moth
• Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, common name "the Bears", constellations
• Bear (Boy Scouts of America), an achievement level
• Bear (gay culture), an LGBTQ subculture and slang term
• Bear market, in economics
• Pedobear, an Internet meme
• Russian Bear, a symbol of Russia

See also

• Bär (disambiguation)
• Baer (disambiguation)
• Bare (disambiguation)
• Behr (disambiguation)
• Big Bear (disambiguation)
• Bruin (disambiguation)
• Little Bear (disambiguation)
• Water bear or tardigrade, a microanimal