title: Bruin
text: 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
  
  See also
   List of Bruin mascots
   Ursidae