# 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
* Bear Brook (disambiguation)
* Bears' 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 (given name)
* Bear (surname), including a list of people with the name
* Bear (nickname), including a list of people with the nickname
* Bear McCreary (born 1979), American musician

## 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 major character in The Railway Series
* Bear, a character from the .hack 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

* 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
* 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

* 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
#### 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, 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) or The Bear 102, England

### Television

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

### Other arts, entertainment and media

* Bear (comics), by Jamie Smart
* The Bear (opera), by William Walton

## Brands and enterprises

* Bear (St. Paul's Churchyard), a historical bookseller in London
* Bear Inn, Cowbridge, Wales
* The Bear, Oxford, England
* 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
* Northern Colorado Bears, United States
* NYIT Bears, United States
* Washington University Bears, United States

### Professional

* Brisbane Bears, an Australian rules football club
* Bristol Bears, an English rugby union team
* 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 R.L.F.C. or Oldham Bears, an English rugby league football club
* Pori Bears, a Finnish-based American football team

## Military

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

## Science and technology

* Bear (grape), a wine grape variety
* Bere (grain) or bear, a barley cultivar
* Lycia ursaria, common name Bear, a species of moth

### 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 (Boy Scouts of America), an achievement level
* Bear (gay culture)
* Bear market, in economics
* Pedobear, an Internet meme
* Russian Bear, a symbol of Russia