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, 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, 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 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, common name "the Bears", constellations

• 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