Bruin

Bruin is a name for a Brown Bear (Ursos arctos), or for any bear, usually poetically or archaically.

The word entered the English language via William Caxton's 1485 translation of a Dutch version of the legend of Reynard the Fox. Bruin is the bear, named for his color; the Middle Dutch word for brown is bruun, while the current Dutch word for brown is actually bruin.

It is a popular nickname and mascot in sports. Some teams using this name include

Professional sports

• Boston Bruins, National Hockey League
• Providence Bruins, American Hockey League
• Chilliwack Bruins, Western Hockey League

Collegiate sports

• Belmont University
• Bellevue University
• Bethany University
• George Fox University
• Salt Lake Community College
• University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA Bruins)

High School sports

• Cherry Creek High School (Greenwood Village, Colorado) - Creek Bruins
• Ballard High School (Louisville, Kentucky) - Ballard Bruins
• Bethel High School (Virginia) (Hampton, Virginia) - Bethel Bruins
• Bonnabel High School (Kenner, Louisiana) - Bonnabel Bruins
• Broadneck High School (Annapolis, Maryland) - Broadneck Bruins
• Brooke High School (Wellsburg, West Virginia) - Brooke Bruins
• Brookings-Harbor High School (Brookings, Oregon) - Brookings-Harbor Bruins
• Cascade High School (Everett, Washington) - Cascade Bruins
• Brunswick School (Greenwich, Connecticut)
• former Henry A. Bradshaw High School (Florence, Alabama) - Bradshaw Bruins
• Greenfield High School (Greenfield, California)
• Lancaster High School (Lancaster, South Carolina) - Battlin' Bruins
• Lake Braddock High School (Burke, Virginia)
• Mountain View High School (Orem, Utah)
• Northrop High School (Fort Wayne, Indiana)
• Northwest Whitfield High School (Tunnel Hill, Georgia) - Northwest BRUINS
• Rock Bridge Senior High (Columbia, Missouri)
• Padua Franciscan High School (Parma, Ohio)
• Pulaski Academy (Little Rock, Arkansas)
• Sam Barlow High School (Gresham, Oregon)
• Santa Clara High School (Santa Clara, California)
• Saint Bede Academy (Peru, Illinois) - Saint Bede Bruins
• Twin Falls High School (Twin Falls, Idaho)
• Western Branch High School (Chesapeake, Virginia)
• Forest Park High School (Woodbridge, Virginia)
• Woodrow Wilson Classical High School (Long Beach, California)

Other uses

• Bruin, Pennsylvania is a borough of Butler County, Pennsylvania in the United States.

• Bruin Norns are a species of Norn in the a-life game, Creatures 3.

• BRUIN is an acronym for BRown University INteractive Language, a programming language developed at Brown University for the IBM System/360.

• BRUIN was also the name of the British Army's tactical communications system deployed in northwestern Europe from the 1960s to 1985.

• Bruin was the English name for the Danish comic Rasmus Klump

• Bruin is the Bear character that fronts a range of baby & pre-school toys made by and sold exclusively in Toys-R-Us stores.

• "The Bruin" Name of a heavy duty rotationally molded plastic outdoorsmen cooler manufactured by Iowa Rotocast Plastics Inc. [1]