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, US, an unincorporated place Bear, Delaware, US, a census-designated place Bear, Idaho, US, 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, from the TV series WordWorld Bear, in the Adventure Time animated series episode "In Your Footsteps" The Bear (Bo' Selecta!), a comic character created by Leigh Francis Br'er Bear, 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 2022–2026 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
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, US; American football Pori Bears, Satakunta, Finland; American football
Other sports Doosan Bears, Seoul, South Korea; baseball Hershey Bears, Pennsylvania, US; hockey
Military USCGC Bear (WMEC-901), a US Coast Guard cutter USS Bear (1874), a US 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, constellations, common name "the Bears" 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