Briar, Briars, Brier, or Briers may refer to:

Briar or brier, common name for a number of unrelated thorny plants that form thickets, including species in the genera Rosa (rose), Rubus (brambles), and Smilax

People and characters Brier (surname) Briers, a surname Briars (surname) Briar Blush, an American drag performer. Naren Briar, an American politician.

Fictional characters Briar, a playable character in the video game League of Legends Briar, a character in the video game Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's downloadable content expansion pack The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero Briar, the evil sister of Rose in Bone (comics) Briar, in the cartoon series Boonie Bears Briar Beauty, the daughter of Sleeping Beauty from the fashion doll franchise Ever After High Briar Cudgeon, in Artemis Fowl Briar Moss, from Tamora Pierce's Circle of Magic and Circle Opens quartets Briar Raleigh, a Marvel Comics character associated with Magneto Briar Rose, a name associated with Sleeping Beauty, in some (including Brothers Grimm) versions of the story

Places Briar, Missouri, U.S. Briar, Texas, U.S. The Briars (Georgina), Ontario, Canada, a lakeside resort Brier, Washington, U.S. Briers, Mississippi, U.S., a ghost town Brier Island, Nova Scotia, Canada Briar Creek (disambiguation), or Brier Creek Briar Hill (disambiguation) Brier Hill (disambiguation)

Facilities and structures Briars, Saint Helena, a small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed The Briars, Mount Martha, on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia, an historic homestead named in honour of Briars, in Saint Helena The Briars, Wahroonga, Sydney, Australia, an historic house named in honour of Briars, in Saint Helena and The Briars, in Mount Martha The Briars (Natchez, Mississippi), U.S., a historic house

Other uses Briar root, wood from Erica arborea, used for making smoking pipes Briar, a type of tobacco pipe The Brier, a bonspiel, the Canadian men's curling championship Briar (software), an open-source software communication technology Brier score, a metric to assess the predictive quality of a model

See also

Briar Patch (disambiguation) Briar Rose (disambiguation) Brière (disambiguation) Blackbriar (disambiguation) Greenbrier (disambiguation) The Briar King, a 2003 novel by Greg Keyes Brier score, a probability-related measure