🐆 Cheetah vs Polar bear 🐻❄️
The cheetah is a bit bigger than the polar bear. The polar bear weighs about 9 times as much as the cheetah.
| Row | 🐆 Cheetah | 🐻❄️ Polar bear |
|---|---|---|
| Top speed We don't have a checked number for the polar bear yet. | 60 to 70 mph96 to 112 km/h1 | no checked number yet |
| Weight The polar bear weighs about 9 times as much as the cheetah. | 75 to 141 lb34 to 64 kg1 | 399 to 1,450 lb181 to 658 kg2 |
| Lives The polar bear usually lives about 3 times as long as the cheetah. | 8 to 10 years8 to 10 years1 | 25 years25 years2 |
| Eats Both eat meat. | antelopes such as gazelles and impalas, and hares | mostly seals, caught at holes in the sea ice |
| Lives in They live in different kinds of places, so they would hardly ever meet. | the grasslands of eastern and southern Africa, and a few in Iran | the Arctic, on the sea ice around the North Pole |
Which one? Cheetah or polar bear
🏁 Who would win the race?
We don't have a checked top speed for the polar bear yet, so there is no race.
We only race. Real animals mostly avoid each other. A race is the only fair contest: who reaches the tree first, by top speed.
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Where these numbers come from
- Smithsonian's National Zoo, Cheetah, checked 30 October 2026.
- National Park Service, checked 30 October 2026.