The Solid Gold Sound of the UCLA Marching Band entertains crowds at UCLA home games, some away games and bowl games. The Band has appeared in more than 20 major motion pictures. The band performed in the 1984 summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The Band has also made numerous TV appearances on televised college sports, shows and commercials. The Band has recorded several records and CDs. A recording of the Band playing the Washington Post March is at the end of the track "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg in his certified double platinum "The Innocent Age" album. The current director of the band is Gordon Henderson with assistant director Dr. Jennifer Judkins.

The sports teams for UCLA are called the Bruins. The Bruin men's and womens' teams participate in NCAA Division I-A as part of the Pacific Ten Conference. Many of the greatest college athletes in history have played for UCLA. Jackie Robinson, Troy Aikman, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Earl Watson, and Ann Meyers are just some of the famous athletic alumni.

The UCLA school colors are "True Blue" and gold. The "True Blue" is a slightly darker shade than the previous powder blue worn by teams. The shade was developed by the UCLA athletic department and Adidas for the 2003 school year.

The Unimog (from the German "UNIversal-MOtor-Gerät", meaning "universal motor machine/equipment") is a series of trucks from Daimler-Benz designed shortly after WWII, originally to be used as slow-moving tractors for Germany's potato harvest.

They feature very high ground clearance ( greater than the Humvee ) made possible by portal gears that allow the axles and transmission to be higher than the tires' centers. Unimogs also feature a flexible frame that allows the tires a wide range of vertical movement to allow the truck to comfortably drive over extremely uneven terrain, even meter-high boulders.