Bear trap or beartrap may refer to:

Technology

*A type of

foothold trap Animal trapping, or simply trapping or ginning, is the use of a device to remotely catch and often kill an animal. Animals may be trapped for a variety of purposes, including for meat, fur/feathers, sport hunting, pest control, and wildlife man ...

meant to catch bears *

Cable binding Cable bindings, also known as Kandahar bindings or bear-trap bindings, are a type of ski bindings widely used through the middle of the 20th century. It was invented and brand-named after the Kandahar Ski Club in 1929 by ski racer and engineer Gu ...

s, a type of ski binding *

Beartrap (hauldown device) A helicopter hauldown and rapid securing device (HHRSD) or beartrap enables the landing and handling of helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) aboard small ships in poor weather. The beartrap was developed by the Royal Canadian Navy (RC ...

, a device that allows helicopter to land on small flight decks in bad weather *A

physiotherapy Physical therapy (PT), also known as physiotherapy, is a healthcare profession, as well as the care provided by physical therapists who promote, maintain, or restore health through patient education, physical intervention, disease preventio ...

device for trigger pointing and rolling out muscles.

Other uses

*The

Soviet–Afghan War The Soviet–Afghan War took place in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the 46-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic o ...

, where "bear" refers to the "Soviet bear" *

Beartrap Creek Beartrap Creek is a stream in Ashland and Bayfield counties, Wisconsin, in the United States. Beartrap Creek was named from an incident when a settler caught a black bear in a trap. Bear Trap Creek Trail is located in the town of Salina just no ...

, a river in Wisconsin *A trio of holes (15, 16, 17), named after golfer and course designer

Jack Nicklaus Jack William Nicklaus (; born January 21, 1940), nicknamed "the Golden Bear", is an American retired professional golfer and List of golf courses designed by Jack Nicklaus, golf course designer. He is widely considered to be one of the greate ...

, at the Champion Course of the PGA National Golf Club *A sudden reversal in a

bear market A market trend is a perceived tendency of the financial markets to move in a particular direction over time. Analysts classify these trends as ''secular'' for long time-frames, ''primary'' for medium time-frames, and ''secondary'' for short time ...

which forces short sellers to take a loss covering their positions. {{disambiguation