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
  • "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

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 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
  • Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, common name "the Bears", constellations

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

See also

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