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