Bruin
# 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

## 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
