Bear (disambiguation)

A bear (noun) is a type of mammal. It can also be an action (verb), meaning to hold up, carry, or support.

Bear may also refer to:

Contents 1 Film, stage and television 2 Geography 3 Literature 4 Music 5 People 6 Radio stations 7 Sports teams 7.1 Collegiate 7.2 Professional 8 Other uses 9 See also

Film, stage and television

• The Bear (Bo' Selecta!), a comic character created by Leigh Francis
• The Bear (1984 film), an American biopic about Paul "Bear" Bryant, legendary football coach at the University of Alabama
• The Bear (1988 film), a French adventure-drama
• The Bear (1999 film), a British animated television short
• The Bear (opera), by William Walton
• The Bear (play), by Anton Chekhov
• Bear (film), a 2010 US natural horror film

Geography

• Bear, Delaware, United States
• Bears (Friesland), Netherlands
• Bear Cave, Romania

Literature

• Bear, a Railway Series character
• Bear (comics), by Jamie Smart
• "The Bear" (fairy tale)
• Bear (novel), by Marian Engel
• "The Bear," a short story by William Faulkner in the collection Go Down, Moses

Music

• The Bear (album), by Element Eighty
• The Bears (band)
• Symphony No. 82 (Haydn), popularly known as the Bear Symphony
• Bear (song), a song by indie rock band The Antlers

People

• Albert the Bear (c. 1100 – 1170), Margrave of Brandenburg
• Elizabeth Bear (born 1971), American author
• Glecia Bear (born 1912), Canadian Cree writer
• Greg Bear (born 1951), American author
• Michael Bear (1934–2000), English cricketer
• Bear Bryant (1913–1983), American college football coach
• Edward Ellice (merchant), British politician, known as "The Bear"
• Bear Grylls (born 1974), British adventurer and television presenter
• Bear McCreary (born 1979), musician and composer
• Owsley Stanley (1935–2011), underground LSD cook, known as "The Bear"
• Cameron White (born 1983), Australian cricketer, nicknamed "Bear"

Radio stations

• The Bear 102, Stratford-upon-Avon, England
• CFBR-FM "100.3 The Bear", Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• CKNL-FM "101.5 The Bear", Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada
• CKQB-FM "106.9 The Bear", Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
• CKRX-FM "102.3 The Bear", Fort Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
• KQBR-FM, Texas, United States
• WBRW-FM, Virginia, United States
• WBYR-FM, Indiana, United States

Sports teams

Collegiate

• Baylor Bears, United States
• California Golden Bears, United States
• Central Arkansas Bears, United States
• Missouri State Bears, United States
• NYIT Bears, United States
• The teams of the University of Northern Colorado, United States

Professional

• Brisbane Bears, an Australian rules football club
• Chicago Bears, an American football team
• Hershey Bears, an American hockey team
• La New Bears, a Taiwanese baseball team
• North Sydney Bears, an Australian rugby league football club

Other uses

• The Gentlemen Bears, drinking and dining society of St Edmund's College, Cambridge
• Battlefield Extraction-Assist Robot, a humanoid military robot
• Bear (Boy Scouts of America)
• BEAR (cipher)
• Bear (gay culture)
• Bear, a .hack character
• BEAR, a particle beam weapon
• Bear Inn, a popular British pub name
  • Bear Inn, Oxford
• Bear market, a stock market trend
• Microsoft Bear
• Tupolev Tu-95, a bomber aircraft, NATO reporting name "Bear"
• USS Bear (1874), a ship

See also

• Bear Brook (disambiguation)
• Bear Creek (disambiguation)
• Bear Island (disambiguation)
• Bear Mountain (disambiguation)
• Big Bear (disambiguation)
• Little Bear (disambiguation)
• Bär (disambiguation)
• Baer (disambiguation)
• Bare (disambiguation)
• Bruin (disambiguation)
• Ursine

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