Bear (disambiguation)
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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
 
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, an American musician
 
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
 - Bear, a novel by Ben Queen
 - The Bear (fairy tale)
 - The Bear, a children's book by Raymond Briggs
 - The Bear, a novel by Claire Cameron
 - The Bear (play), by Anton Chekhov
 - "The Bear", a short story by William Faulkner from Go Down, Moses
 - "The Bear", a short story by Stephen King that was later incorporated into The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
 - The Bear, a novel by Andrew Krivak
 
Music
- The Bear (album), by Element Eighty
 - 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
 
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), "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
 - "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
 
Brands and enterprises
- Bear (St. Paul's Churchyard), a historical bookseller in London
 - The Bear, Oxford, England
 - Bear Inn, Cowbridge, Wales
 - 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
 - Perth Bears, an Australian rugby league football club
 - Pori Bears, a Finnish-based American football team
 
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
 
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), an LGBTQ subculture and slang term
 - Bear market, in economics
 - Pedobear, an Internet meme
 - Russian Bear, a symbol of Russia