Here’s a Punpedia entry all about bear puns, and as it turns out there are a lot of them! Our list of bear puns is composed of 3 main categories. Firstly, there are a tonne of bear puns based purely around the word “bear” (bearings, barbearian, bearly, …). Then there are those based around species of bears like the polar bear and grizzly bear, and also around pseudo-bears like the koala bear. And finally, there are a few puns based around bear-related topics like paws, hibernation and claws.

If you’re looking for bear puns in images (memes, visual puns, jokes), then you’ll want to scroll towards the bottom of the page – there’s a section for those. There’s also a section for bear-related words to help you come up with your own bear puns.

As usual, if you have a bear pun that we don’t, we’d love for you to share it with us! There’s a comments section at the bottom of the page.

Bear Puns List

Here’s our ever-growing list of bear puns! Note that each item may represent either either a simple word-swap (e.g. Bare → Bear) or it may be a general rule from which multiple puns can be made. In the case of general rules, the asterisks sign (*) represents one or more letters. If you’ve got a bear pun that we don’t, please share it with us in the comments! Without further ado, here’s the list of bear puns:

Bear : The term “bear” itself has many different meanings other than the one which refers to the animal. These can all be used for puns: “ Bear with me.” and “I can’t bear this anymore.” and “I will bear the responsibility for this.” and “ Child-bearing .” and “Will you bear this luggage across the river for me?” and “Does this tree bear fruit?”

: The term “bear” itself has many different meanings other than the one which refers to the animal. These can all be used for puns: “ with me.” and “I can’t this anymore.” and “I will the responsibility for this.” and “ .” and “Will you this luggage across the river for me?” and “Does this tree fruit?” Bearings : “Just let me get my bearings .”

: “Just let me get my .” Bearer : “I hate to be the bearer of bad news.”

: “I hate to be the of bad news.” Barbarian → Bar bear ian : “He thinks he’s Conan the Bar bear ian .”

: “He thinks he’s Conan the .” Barbaric → Barbearic : “Their behaviour is bar bear ic .”

: “Their behaviour is .” Bare → Bear : “The landscape is bear .”

: “The landscape is .” Barefoot → Bearfoot : “We’ll have to walk bearfoot .”

: “We’ll have to walk .” Barefaced → Bearfaced : “A bearfaced lie.”

: “A lie.” Barely → Bearly : “I can bearly stand another of your puns.”

: “I can stand another of your puns.” Baritone → Bearitone : “We’ll need another bearitone for the chorus.”

: “We’ll need another for the chorus.” Barium → Bearium : “ Bearium is a chemical element.”

: “ is a chemical element.” Baron → Bearon : “The bearon will see you now.”

: “The will see you now.” Baroness → Bearoness : “The bearoness controls most of this territory.”

: “The controls most of this territory.” Barricade → Bearicade : “We’ll need to bearicade these doors.”

: “We’ll need to these doors.” Barrier → Bearier : “This industry has a high bearier -to-entry.”

: “This industry has a high -to-entry.” Barrister → Bearister : “They’ve hired very good bearisters .”

: “They’ve hired very good .” Bearable : “The music is the only thing that makes this party bearable .”

: “The music is the only thing that makes this party .” Bearings : “The axle needs new bearings .”

: “The axle needs new .” Burial → Bearial : “This is an ancient bearial site.”

: “This is an ancient site.” Buried → Bearied : “We bearied the chest on the beach,”

: “We the chest on the beach,” Bury → Beary : “She was bearied in thought.”

: “She was in thought.” Cadbury → Cadbeary : “ Cadbeary should bring out a dairy-free line.”

: “ should bring out a dairy-free line.” Child bear ing : “This grizzly is of childbearing age.”

: “This grizzly is of age.” Embarrass → Embearass : “Oh, I’m so em bear assed !”

: “Oh, I’m so !” Embarrassment → Embearassment : “This evening has been a complete embearassment .”

: “This evening has been a complete .” Embarrassing → Embearassing : “Oh, how embearassing !”

: “Oh, how !” Forbearance : “He’s very annoying. It will require patient forbearance .”

: “He’s very annoying. It will require patient .” Forebears : “Generations of our forebears have lived in this forest.”

: “Generations of our have lived in this forest.” Gooseberry → Goosebeary : “Ripe yellow goosebearies .” Also works for mulbeary , rasbeary , strawbeary , cranbeary , blackbeary , etc.

: “Ripe yellow .” Also works for , , , , , etc. Berries → Bearies : “Mmm, these bearies are so sweet!”

: “Mmm, these are so sweet!” Threadbare → Threadbear : “She was wearing a tattered, threadbear overcoat.”

: “She was wearing a tattered, overcoat.” Unbearable : “These puns are almost unbearable .”

: “These puns are almost .” Unbearably : “He was unbearably patronising.”

: “He was patronising.” Wheelbarrow → Wheel bear ow : “A wheelbearow would make this job a lot easier.”

: “A would make this job a lot easier.” Grizzly : “Oh, don’t get all grizzly with me!” and “Things are about to get grizzly .”

: “Oh, don’t get all with me!” and “Things are about to get .” Quality → Koalaty : “I need some koalaty time with my family.”

: “I need some time with my family.” Qualifications → Koalafications : “Are you sure you have the koalafications ?”

: “Are you sure you have the ?” Qualify → Koalafy : “I’ve got through the koalafying rounds.”

: “I’ve got through the rounds.” Qualitative → Koalatative : “My thesis mainly involves koalatative research.”

: “My thesis mainly involves research.” Qualia → Koalia : “ Koalia is still a controversial issue in philosophy.”

: “ is still a controversial issue in philosophy.” Disqualification → Diskoalafication : “Cheating will result in diskoalafication .”

: “Cheating will result in .” Disqualified → Diskoalafied : “I was diskoalafied in the third round.”

: “I was in the third round.” Equality → Ekoalaty : “Gender ekoalaty is an important issue in the world.”

: “Gender is an important issue in the world.” Overqualified → Overkoalafied : “I’m overkoalafied for this job.”

: “I’m for this job.” Underqualified → Underkoalafied : “Before getting my degree I was underkoalafied for my chosen career.”

: “Before getting my degree I was for my chosen career.” Squalid → Skoalad : “A skoalad , overcrowded prison.”

: “A , overcrowded prison.” Brewin’ → Bruin : “I’m bruin some tea, do you want some?”

: “I’m some tea, do you want some?” Ruin → Bruin : “Well, Christmas is bruined .”

: “Well, Christmas is .” Polar : “Yeah, we’re polar opposites but we get along so well.”

: “Yeah, we’re opposites but we get along so well.” Hibernation : “The whole town basically hibernates over winter.”

: “The whole town basically over winter.” Honey : “ Honey , your puns are tearing this relationship apart.”

: “ , your puns are tearing this relationship apart.” Solitary : “I live a fairly solitary existence.”

: “I live a fairly existence.” Kid/Child → Cub : “Oh c’mon you’re acting like a cub .”

: “Oh c’mon you’re acting like a .” Very → Beary : “I saw it with my beary own eyes.”

: “I saw it with my own eyes.” For → Fur : “ Fur the love of god!”

: “ the love of god!” *fur* : Use these fur-related/containing phrases in your reindeer wordplay: “Couldn’t be fur ther from the truth,” and “Moving fur niture ,” and “A fur tive manner,” and “And fur thermore ..” and “A roaring fur nace ,” and “Blind fur y ,” and “Fast and Fur ious ,” and “ Fur nishing the truth.”

: Use these fur-related/containing phrases in your reindeer wordplay: “Couldn’t be from the truth,” and “Moving ,” and “A manner,” and “And ..” and “A roaring ,” and “Blind ,” and “Fast and ,” and “ the truth.” Far → Fur : As in, “A step too fur ,” and “As fur as it goes,” and “As fur as the eye can see,” and “A fur cry,” and “Few and fur between,” and “Over the hills and fur away,” and “So fur , so good,” and “As fur as I know.” Other suitable “far” containing words: f ur m (farm), fur well (farewell), fur t (fart), fur ther (farther), inso fur (insofar), ne fur ious (nefarious), wel fur and fur ce (farce).

: As in, “A step too ,” and “As as it goes,” and “As as the eye can see,” and “A cry,” and “Few and between,” and “Over the hills and away,” and “So , so good,” and “As as I know.” Other suitable “far” containing words: (farm), (farewell), (fart), (farther), (insofar), (nefarious), and (farce). *fer* → *fur* : As in, “A of fur you can’t refuse,” and “I beg to dif fur ,” and “Make a di ffur ence ,” and “Marching to the beat of a dif fur ent drum,” and “ Of fur condolences.” Other “fer” containing words that you could use: furn (fern), fur al (feral), fur vent (fervent), fur vor (fervor), fur ret (ferret), fur ment (ferment), fur ocious , furtile , fur rule (ferrule), de fur (defer), con fur , in fur , refur , offur , transfur , buffur , prefur , proffur , re fur ence , con fur ence and transfurence .

: As in, “A you can’t refuse,” and “I beg to ,” and “Make a ,” and “Marching to the beat of a drum,” and “ condolences.” Other “fer” containing words that you could use: (fern), (feral), (fervent), (fervor), (ferret), (ferment), , , (ferrule), (defer), , , , , , , , , , and . *fir* → *fur* : “At fur st ,” and “At fur st blush,” and “A fur m handshake.” Other suitable words: a ffur m , con fur m , af fur mation and af fur mative .

: “At ,” and “At blush,” and “A handshake.” Other suitable words: , , and . *for* → *fur* : As in, “A fur ce to be reckoned with,” and “Good fur m (form),” and “Move fur wards ,” and “Why have you fur saken me?” and “The fur cast for tomorrow,” and “So on and so fur th ,” and “ Fur bidden fruit.” Other words that would work: per fur mance , in fur mation , there fur , fur sight (foresight) and fur see .

: As in, “A to be reckoned with,” and “Good (form),” and “Move ,” and “Why have you me?” and “The for tomorrow,” and “So on and so ,” and “ fruit.” Other words that would work: , , , (foresight) and . Fear* → Fur* : As in: furf ul , furl ess , fur some and fur monger .

: As in: , , and . *feur* → *fur* : As in: chauf fur and coif fur . Note: a coiffeur is a hairdresser.

: As in: and . Note: a coiffeur is a hairdresser. Four* → Fur* : As in: fur (four), fur th (fourth), furt een , fur ty (forty) and fur some (foursome).

: As in: (four), (fourth), , (forty) and (foursome). *phor* → *fur* : As in, “A useless meta fur ,” and “Giddy eu fur ia (euphoria).” Other words that could be used: cam fur (camphor), phos fur , dys fur ia (dysphoria) and sema fur (semaphore). Note: semaphore is a system of signs.

: As in, “A useless ,” and “Giddy (euphoria).” Other words that could be used: (camphor), , (dysphoria) and (semaphore). Note: semaphore is a system of signs. *pher* → *fur* : As in, “You’re indeci fur able,” and “I’m not your go fur (gopher),” and “The wedding photogra fur ,” and “The barefoot philoso fur .” Other words that could work: fur omone (pheromone), ci fur (cipher), philoso fur (philosopher), cinematogra fur , peri fur al (peripheral), cartogra fur , atmos fur (atmosphere), s fur (sphere), para fur nalia (paraphernalia), peri fur y (periphery), hemis fur (hemisphere).

: As in, “You’re and “I’m not your (gopher),” and “The wedding ,” and “The barefoot .” Other words that could work: (pheromone), (cipher), (philosopher), , (peripheral), , (atmosphere), (sphere), (paraphernalia), (periphery), (hemisphere). Sephiroth → Sep fur oth : Note: Sephiroth is a much-loved character from the Final Fantasy game franchise.

: Note: Sephiroth is a much-loved character from the Final Fantasy game franchise. *phar* → *fur* : Change the “phar” in certain words to “fur” to make reindeer-related puns: fur macy (pharmacy), fur aoh (pharaoh), fur macist (pharmacist), fur macology (pharmacology).

: Change the “phar” in certain words to “fur” to make reindeer-related puns: (pharmacy), (pharaoh), (pharmacist), (pharmacology). *phe* → *fur* : As in, “Natural fur nomenon (phenomenon),” and “A fur nomenal mistake.” Other words that would work: fur seant (pheasant), eu fur mism (euphemism), blas fur my (blasphemy).

: As in, “Natural (phenomenon),” and “A mistake.” Other words that would work: (pheasant), (euphemism), (blasphemy). *phere* → *fur* : As in, atmos fur (atmosphere), hemis fur (hemisphere), bios fur (biosphere), stratos fur (stratosphere), and tropos fur (troposphere). Note: the troposphere is the lowest layer of the Earth’s atmosphere.

: As in, (atmosphere), (hemisphere), (biosphere), (stratosphere), and (troposphere). Note: the troposphere is the lowest layer of the Earth’s atmosphere. Pander → Panda : “The newspapers are pandaing to people’s baser instincts.”

: “The newspapers are to people’s baser instincts.” Pandemonium → Pandamonium : “The small argument ended in utter pandamonium .”

: “The small argument ended in utter .” Pandemic → Panda-emic : “This unassuming disease has caused a panda-emic .”

: “This unassuming disease has caused a .” Expendable → Ex-panda-ble : “It just feels like you think I’m ex-panda-ble .”

: “It just feels like you think I’m .” Poor → Paw : “Oh you paw thing.”

: “Oh you thing.” Positively → Pawsitively : “Processed and red meats have been pawsitively linked to several common cancers.”

: “Processed and red meats have been linked to several common cancers.” Position → Pawsition : “I’m not in a pawsition to comment on that.”

: “I’m not in a to comment on that.” Possible → Pawssible : “That’s simply not pawssible !”

: “That’s simply not !” Possibility → Pawsibility : “Is there a slight pawsibility ?”

: “Is there a slight ?” Possession → Pawsession : “Charged for pawsession of narcotics.”

: “Charged for of narcotics.” Pose → Paws : “Strike a paws !”

: “Strike a !” Posture → Pawsture : “I need to pay more attention to my pawsture.”

: “I need to pay more attention to my pawsture.” Posh → Pawsh : “This party is too pawsh for me.”

: “This party is too for me.” Postulate → Pawstulate : “We can only pawstulate that he escaped via the window.”

: “We can only that he escaped via the window.” Posterity → Pawsterity : “The names were recorded for pawsterity .”

: “The names were recorded for .” Posthumously → Pawsthumously : “He was granted the nobel prize pawsthumously .”

: “He was granted the nobel prize .” Be* → Bear* : If a word begins with “be” it can usually be turned into a very corny bear pun: before ( bear-fore ), become ( bear-come ), between ( bear-tween ), because ( bear-cause ), believe ( bear-lieve ), begin ( bear-gin ), best ( bear-st ), bed ( bear-d ), benefit ( bear-nefit ), behaviour ( bear-haviour ), behind ( bear-hind ), began ( bear-gan ), became ( bear-came ), beginning ( bear-ginning ), belief ( bear-lief ), bedroom ( bear-droom ), belong ( bear-long ), believed ( bear-lieved ), benefits ( bear-nefits ), becomes ( bear-comes ), becoming ( bear-coming ), beside ( bear-side ), berlin ( bear-lin ), beneath ( bear-neath ), belt ( bear-lt ), begun ( bear-gun ), benjamin ( bear-njamin ), begins ( bear-gins ), behalf ( bear-half ), besides ( bear-sides ), beliefs ( bear-liefs ), beaten ( bearten ), belly ( bear-lly ), bedrooms ( bear-drooms ), belonged ( bear-longed ), believing ( bear-lieving ), belonging ( bear-longing ), beneficial ( bear-neficial ), beneficiary ( bear-neficiary ), bedside ( bear-dside ), belongs ( bear-longs ), betray ( bear-tray ), beginner ( bear-ginner ), betrayal ( bear-trayal ), believer ( bear-liever ), beloved ( bear-loved ), behaved ( bear-haved ), benefited ( bear-nefited ), bereavement ( bear-reavement ), beforehand ( bear-forehand ), beginnings ( bear-ginnings ), behaving ( bear-having ), behaviours ( bear-haviours ), bellow ( bear-llow ), belts ( bear-lts ), benchmark ( bear-nchmark ), benefactor ( bear-nefactor ), beneficiaries ( bear-neficiaries ), benign ( bear-nign ), bestow ( bear-stow ), bewildered ( bear-wildered ).

: If a word begins with “be” it can usually be turned into a very corny bear pun: before ( ), become ( ), between ( ), because ( ), believe ( ), begin ( ), best ( ), bed ( ), benefit ( ), behaviour ( ), behind ( ), began ( ), became ( ), beginning ( ), belief ( ), bedroom ( ), belong ( ), believed ( ), benefits ( ), becomes ( ), becoming ( ), beside ( ), berlin ( ), beneath ( ), belt ( ), begun ( ), benjamin ( ), begins ( ), behalf ( ), besides ( ), beliefs ( ), beaten ( ), belly ( ), bedrooms ( ), belonged ( ), believing ( ), belonging ( ), beneficial ( ), beneficiary ( ), bedside ( ), belongs ( ), betray ( ), beginner ( ), betrayal ( ), believer ( ), beloved ( ), behaved ( ), benefited ( ), bereavement ( ), beforehand ( ), beginnings ( ), behaving ( ), behaviours ( ), bellow ( ), belts ( ), benchmark ( ), benefactor ( ), beneficiaries ( ), benign ( ), bestow ( ), bewildered ( ). Pear* → Bear* : As in, “A bear lescent gleam,” and “ Disab bear ing act,” and “Will you make an ab bear ance ?”

: As in, “A gleam,” and “ act,” and “Will you make an ?” Shakespeare → Shakesbeare

Pare* → Bear* : As in, “ Bear ental (parental) guidance,” and “In bear enthesis (parenthesis),” and “Beyond com bear .” Other words that could work: pre bear (prepare), trans bear ent (transparent) and ab bear ent (apparent).

: As in, “ (parental) guidance,” and “In (parenthesis),” and “Beyond .” Other words that could work: (prepare), (transparent) and (apparent). Bi polar : “He’s receiving great treatment for his bipolar disorder.” Note that this word can be used as a polar bear pun, if you missed it.

: “He’s receiving great treatment for his disorder.” Note that this word can be used as a polar bear pun, if you missed it. Beard → Bear-d : “A very bushy bear-d “

: “A very bushy “ Maul : This term can be used without animal connotations and so it can be used as a bear pun with the right context. “Yeah, I got absolutely mauled in rugby today.”

: This term can be used without animal connotations and so it can be used as a bear pun with the right context. “Yeah, I got absolutely in rugby today.” Mall → Maul : “I bought it down at the maul .”

: “I bought it down at the .” Awesome → Ursine/Ursome : “OMG, that’s ursome !”

: “OMG, that’s !” Because → Bear-claws : “I’m yawning bear-claws I’m tired.”

: “I’m yawning I’m tired.” Pause → Paws : “Let’s paws and reflect.”

: “Let’s and reflect.” Burn → Bearn : “Feel the bearn .”

: “Feel the .” Tedious → Teddy-ous : “A teddy-ous conversation can be improved with a sprinkle of bear puns.”

: “A conversation can be improved with a sprinkle of bear puns.” Tail : Use these tail-related phrases: “Happy as a dog with two tails ,” and “Nervous as a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs,” and “Bright eyed and busy tailed ,” and “Can’t make head or tail of it,” and “Chase your own tail ,” and “Two shakes of a lamb’s tail .” Note: two shakes of a lamb’s tail is a phrase used to indicated that something is very fast.

: Use these tail-related phrases: “Happy as a dog with two ,” and “Nervous as a cat in a room full of rocking chairs,” and “Bright eyed and busy ,” and “Can’t make head or of it,” and “Chase your own ,” and “Two shakes of a lamb’s .” Note: two shakes of a lamb’s tail is a phrase used to indicated that something is very fast. Tale → Tail : As in, “Dead men tell no tails ,” and “ Fairytail ending,” and “ Live to tell the tail ,” and “Never tell tails out of school,” and “An old wives’ tail ,” and “Tattle tail ,” and “Tell tail sign.”

: As in, “Dead men tell no ,” and “ ending,” and “ to tell the ,” and “Never tell out of school,” and “An old wives’ ,” and “Tattle ,” and “Tell sign.” Talent → Tailent : As in, “___’s got Tailent ,” and “A tailented painter,” and “Where would you say your tailents lie?”

: As in, “___’s got ,” and “A painter,” and “Where would you say your lie?” Toilet → Tailet : As in, “Down the tailet ,” and “In the tailet .”

: As in, “Down the ,” and “In the .” Style → Stail : As in, hairs tail , frees tail , lifes tail , and s tail us (stylus)

: As in, , , , and (stylus) Tile → Tail: As in, fertail (fertile), percerntail (percentile), projectail (projectile), reptail (reptile), and versatail (versatile).

Bear-Related Words

No doubt there are many more puns to be made, so we’ve gathered together a list of bear-related words to help you come up with your own bear puns. If you come up with any good ones, please share them in the comments and we’ll add them to our list!

cub, grizzly, bruin, bearish, teddy, teddy bear, ursine, polar bear, polar, black bear, brown bear, kodiak bear, koala, hibernation, honey, Winnie-the-Pooh, Paddington Bear, Baloo, panda, bile bear, sun bear, red panda, mammal, shaggy, paws, paw, solitary

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