Bruin

Bruin, (from Dutch for "brown"), is an English folk term for brown bear.

Bruin, Bruins or BRUIN may also refer to:

Places

• Lake Bruin, ox-bow lake of the Mississippi River located in northeastern Louisiana
  • Lake Bruin State Park
• Bruin, Kentucky, United States
• Bruin, Pennsylvania, United States
• Bruin's Slave Jail, building in Alexandria, Virginia

Sports team nicknames and mascots

• Ayr Bruins, a defunct Scottish ice hockey team
• Bellevue University, Bellevue, Nebraska
• Belmont University, Nashville, Tennessee
• Bob Jones University, Greenville, South Carolina
• Boston Bruins, an American NHL hockey team
• UCLA Bruins, a collegiate sports team located in Los Angeles, California
• Chilliwack Bruins, a former Canadian major junior ice hockey team in Chilliwack, British Columbia
• George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon
• Kellogg Community College, Battle Creek, Michigan
• New Westminster Bruins, a former Canadian major junior ice hockey team in New Westminster, British Columbia
• Piedmont International University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Providence Bruins, an American AHL hockey team in Providence, Rhode Island
• Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake County, Utah
• Sheridan College Brampton,Ontario

Other uses

• Bruin (surname)
• Oud bruin, Belgian beer
• Heineken Oud Bruin, Dutch beer
• Yamaha Bruin 350, utility all-terrain vehicle
• Brown University Interactive Language, a programming language
• Rasmus Klump, a comic strip published as Bruin
• Bruin, a brown bear in the Reynard cycle fables

See also

• List of Bruin mascots
• Ursidae