Bold is a font style used for emphasis. Bold or BOLD may also refer to: Boldness, or being bold, courage, the opposite of being shy Military HMS Bold (1801), a gun-brig that ran aground and was broken up in 1811 HMS Bold (1812), a gun-brig that was wrecked in 1813 HMS Manly (1804) or HMS Bold, a ship that was sold in 1814 USS Bold (BAT-8) or HMS Bold (W114), a tugboat transferred to the United Kingdom in 1942 USS Bold (AMc-67), a minesweeper laid down in 1941 USS Bold (AM-424), a minesweeper launched in 1953 USNS Bold (T-AGOS-12) Bold (decoy), a German World War II sonar decoy Places Bold, St Helens, a civil parish in Merseyside, England Bold Cove, Falkland Islands Bold Street, Liverpool Bold Park, an urban bushland area in Perth, Western Australia Bold (river), a tributary of the Buzău in Romania Television bold (TV channel), a Canadian television channel 10 Bold, an Australian television channel The Bold and the Beautiful or Bold, a TV soap opera Other uses Bold (band), an American hardcore punk band Bold (book) or Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World, a book by Peter Diamandis Bold (detergent), a brand of laundry detergent Bold (EP), by Mary Lambert, 2017 Bold (horse), an American Thoroughbred racehorse Bold (surname), a surname (and list of people with the surname) Barcode of Life Data System (BOLD), a DNA sequence database Biological Oxidant and Life Detection (BOLD), a proposed spacecraft Black Organization for Leadership Development, a Louisiana political group BlackBerry Bold, a smartphone Blood-oxygen-level dependent, a method used in functional magnetic resonance imaging Bolad (given name) or Bold, an Inner Asian given name Bureau of Legal Dentistry, a forensic dentistry organization in Vancouver, British Columbia See also List of people known as the Bold