In geography, The Lions (peaks) are located in the North Shore Mountains north of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

In sports, The Lions can refer to several professional sports teams including:

Rugby

• British and Irish Lions of rugby union
• The Great Britain national rugby league team, known as the Lions
• Swinton Lions RLFC
• Lions, South Africa's Super 14 rugby franchise based in Johannesburg.

Gridiron

• Detroit Lions of the National Football League
• BC Lions of the Canadian Football League

Australian Rules Football

• Brisbane Lions, a team in the AFL
• Fitzroy Football Club, a team formerly in the AFL
• Subiaco Football Club, a team in the WAFL
• Huonville Lions, a club currently playing in the Southern Football League
• Suncoast Lions Football Club, a feeder club for the Brisbane Lions
• North London Lions, a team based in London
• Victoria Lions, an amateur club based in Canada

Soccer

• East End Lions in the Sierra Leone National Premier League
• Young Lions (Singapore football team), an under-23 soccer team from Singapore
• Sannat Lions F.C., a club from the village of Sannat on Gozo, Malta
• Heart of Lions, a member of the Ghana Telecom Premier League
• Iraq national football team, nicknamed the Lions of Mesopotamia
• Persepolis F.C.
• Queensland Lions Soccer Club, formerly known as the "Brisbane Lions"

England

• England national football team, nicknamed The Three Lions
• Aston Villa F.C. (which has a Scottish Lion Rampant)
• Millwall F.C.

Scotland

• Livingston F.C. of the Scottish First Division

Indoor football

• Columbus Lions, a charter member of the World Indoor Football League

Baseball

• Saitama Seibu Lions of Japan's Pacific League

Cricket

• Surrey Lions, English county's Twenty20 and Pro40 team
• Highveld Lions, South African Twenty20 and Pro40 team

Speedway

• Oxford Lions, a British Speedway team based in Oxford, England

Basketball

• San Beda Red Lions from the Philippines

Colleges

• The College of New Jersey
• Columbia University
• Eastern Mennonite University
• Lincoln University (Pennsylvania)
• Lindenwood University
• Loyola Marymount University
• University of North Alabama
• Piedmont College
• Southeastern Louisiana University
• Southwestern Assemblies of God University
• Vanguard University

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