Bull Run or Bullrun may refer to:

Military

First Battle of Bull Run The First Battle of Bull Run (the name used by Union forces), also known as the Battle of First Manassas

(First Manassas), 1861, the first major battle of the American Civil War *

Second Battle of Bull Run The Second Battle of Bull Run or Battle of Second Manassas was fought August 28–30, 1862, in Prince William County, Virginia, as part of the American Civil War. It was the culmination of the Northern Virginia Campaign waged by Confederate ...

(Second Manassas), 1862, a later battle also at Bull Run * Operation Bull Run, a military operation of the Iraq War and part of Operation Marne Torch *

Bullrun (decryption program) Bullrun (stylized BULLRUN) is a clandestine, highly classified program to crack encryption of online communications and data, which is run by the United States National Security Agency (NSA). The British Government Communications Headquarters ( ...

, a secret anti-encryption program run by the US National Security Agency (NSA) * USNS ''Bull Run'' (T-AO-156), an oil tanker

Places in the United States

Virginia

Bull Run (Occoquan River tributary) Bull Run is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of the Occoquan River that originates from a spring in the Bull Run Mountains in Loudoun County, ...

, a stream in Fairfax, Loudoun, and Prince William counties, site of the Civil War battles **

Bull Run, Fairfax County, Virginia Bull Run is a census designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 United States census, 2020 census with a population of 6,972. References

Census-designa ...

, a census-designated place west of Centreville, east of the stream; See

U.S. Route 29 in Virginia U.S. Route 29 (US 29) is a major north–south route in the Commonwealth of Virginia. It covers from the North Carolina border at the city of Danville to the Key Bridge in Washington, D.C. US 29 roughly bisects Virginia into eastern and ...

Bull Run, Prince William County, Virginia Bull Run is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County, Virginia. The population was 14,983 at the 2010 census. History Two major battles of the American Civil War, the First Battle of Bull Run and the Second Battle of Bull Run, too ...

, a census-designated place northwest of Manassas, west of the stream **

Bull Run Mountain Estates, Virginia Bull Run Mountain Estates is a census-designated place in Prince William County, Virginia. The population as of the 2010 Census was 1,261.Bull Run Regional Park Bull Run Regional Park is a multi-use facility located in Centreville, Virginia, owned and operated by the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority. The park is situated near Interstate 66, in the Bull Run / Occoquan Stream valley. It features n ...

, on the stream in Fairfax County *

Bull Run Mountains The Bull Run Mountains are a mountain range of the Blue Ridge Mountains in northern Virginia in the United States. Located approximately east of the main chain, across the Loudoun Valley. The Bull Run Mountains, together with Catoctin Mounta ...

, a mountain range in Fauquier, Loudoun, and Prince William counties

Elsewhere

Bull Run Mountains (Nevada) The Bull Run Mountains is a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada, United States. Much of the range is contained within the Mountain City Ranger District A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides tha ...

, a mountain range in Elko County *

Bull Run (Deep River tributary) Bull Run is a long 3rd order tributary to the Deep River (North Carolina), Deep River in Guilford County, North Carolina. Course Bull Run rises in a pond about 1 mile west of Greensboro, North Carolina in Guilford County and then flows southwes ...

, a stream in Guilford County, North Carolina *

Bull Run River (Oregon) The Bull Run River is a tributary of the Sandy River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Beginning at the lower end of Bull Run Lake in the Cascade Range, it flows generally west through the Bull Run Watershed Management Unit (BRWMU), a restricted are ...

Bull Run Lake Bull Run Lake is a reservoir, an impoundment of the Bull Run River in the U.S. state of Oregon. Providing part of the primary drinking water supply for Portland, Oregon, it rates highly as an oligotrophic lake, a very clean source of water. As o ...

, a reservoir, an impoundment of the river **

Bull Run Hydroelectric Project The Bull Run Hydroelectric Project was a Portland General Electric (PGE) development in the Sandy River basin in the U.S. state of Oregon. Originally built between 1908 and 1912 near the town of Bull Run, it supplied hydroelectric power for the ...

, a former dam project on the river **

Bull Run, Oregon Bull Run is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States. It is located about northeast of Sandy, near the Bull Run River and the powerhouse of the defunct Mount Hood Railway and Power Company (later the Bull Run Hydr ...

, an unincorporated community named for the river **

Bull Run National Forest Bull Run National Forest was established as the Bull Run Forest Reserve by the General Land Office in Oregon on June 17, 1892, with . After the transfer of federal forests to the U.S. Forest Service in 1905, it became a National Forest on March ...

, a former national forest *

Bull Run Creek Bull Run Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Bull Run Creek was named for an incident when a runaway bull roamed the area. See also * List of rivers of South Dakota This is a list of rivers in the state of South Dakota in the U ...

, a stream in South Dakota *

Bull Run Fossil Plant Bull Run Fossil Plant, commonly known as Bull Run Steam Plant, is a 889 megawatt ( MW), coal-fired electric generating station owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The plant is the only coal fired power plant ever construc ...

also known as Bull Run Steam Plant, a coal-fired electric generating station owned by the Tennessee Valley Authority

Entertainment

* ''Bull Run'' (novel), a young adult novel by Paul Fleischman about the First Battle of Bull Run * '' The Battles of Bull Run'', a 1973 board wargame that simulates both battles of Bull Run *

Bullrun Rally The Bullrun Rally is an annual automobile rally of over 100 mainly exotic vehicles, with drivers from all around the world. Cars are typically highly modified exotics or restored classics and compete over seven days, traversing 3,000 to 4,000 miles. ...

, an automobile rally in North America *

Bull running Bull running was a custom practised in England until the 19th century. It involved chasing a bull through the streets of a town until it was weakened, then slaughtering the animal and butchering it for its meat. Bull running became illegal in 1835 ...

, a defunct event once common in England, in which townsfolk chased down a bull then slaughtered it **

Stamford bull run The Stamford bull run was a bull-running and bull-baiting event in the English town of Stamford, Lincolnshire. It was held on St Brice's Day (13 November), for perhaps more than 600 years, until 1839. A 1996 ''Journal of Popular Culture'' paper ...

, the last surviving such event, ending in 1839 **

Tutbury bull run The Tutbury bull run was a blood sport that took place in Tutbury, Staffordshire, from the 14th century until 1778. It formed part of the annual Court of Minstrels, a ceremonial legal proceeding for travelling musicians in the nearby counties. Th ...

Running of the bulls A running of the bulls ( es, encierro, from the verb ''encerrar'', 'to corral, to enclose'; oc, abrivado, literally 'haste, momentum'; ca, correbous, 'run-bulls') is an event that involves running in front of a small group of bulls, typicall ...

, events in Spain, Portugal, France, and Mexico, in which people run in front of a number of bulls, often used in bullfighting after the run

Other uses

Bull market A market trend is a perceived tendency of 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-fram ...

or bull run, a rising market trend in economics