Rock

Rock most often refers to:

• Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
• Rock music, a genre of popular music

Rock or Rocks may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

• Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales
• Rock, Cornwall, a village in England
• Rock, County Tyrone, a village in Northern Ireland
• Rock, Devon, a location in England
• Rock, Neath Port Talbot, a location in Wales
• Rock, Northumberland, a village in England
• Rock, Somerset, a location in England
• Rock, West Sussex, a hamlet in Washington, England
• Rock, Worcestershire, a village and civil parish in England

United States

• Rock, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Rock, Michigan, an unincorporated community
• Rock, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
• Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin, a town in southern Wisconsin
• Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin, a town in central Wisconsin

Elsewhere

• Corregidor, an island in the Philippines also known as "The Rock"
• Jamaica, an island in the Caribbean is locally referred to as the "Rock"
• Niue, an island near Tonga referred to as the "Rock" by residents
• Rock of Gibraltar, a British overseas territory near the southernmost tip of Spain

Multiple entities

• Rock County (disambiguation)
• Rock Creek (disambiguation)
• Rock Island (disambiguation)
• Rock Lake (disambiguation)
• Rock River (disambiguation)
• Rock Mountain (disambiguation)
• Rock Township (disambiguation)

People

• Rock (name), a list of people with the surname, first name or nickname
• Rock (rapper) (born Jamal Bush in 1975), American rapper
• Man Mountain Rock, later stage name used by professional wrestler Maxx Payne
• Rock aka Blade Runner Rock, early ring name used by The Ultimate Warrior while as a member of the Blade Runners tag team.
• The Rock, (born Dwayne Johnson in 1972), American actor and wrestler

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Rock (comics), a character in the DC Comics universe
• Rock (manga), a recurring, major character in most of Osamu Tezuka's manga series
• Rock Howard, the playable character in Garou: Mark of the Wolves
• Mega Man (character), also called Rock, from the Mega Man series
• Chuck Rock, the playable character in the 1991 self-titled side-scrolling platform video game
• Sgt. Rock, a DC Comics character

Music

Albums

• Rock (album), by Pleymo (2003)
• Rock!!!!! , by Violent Femmes (1995)
• R.O.C.K. , by Kirka (1986)
• Rock (Casting Pearls EP) (2002)
• Rocks (Aerosmith album) (1976)
• Rocks (Harem Scarem album) (2001)

Songs

• "Rock", by Joe Morris from Singularity (2001)
• "Rock", by Lemon Jelly from the single Soft/Rock (2001)
• "Rock" by Plies from the mixtape Ain't No Mixtape Bih 3 (2017)
• "Rock" by Groove Coverage from 21st Century (2006)
• "Rocks" (song), by Primal Scream (1994)
• "Rocks", by Imagine Dragons from Night Visions (2012)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Rock (magazine), a former Yugoslav music magazine
• Rock, a novel by Hal Ellson
• Rocks (film), a 2019 British coming-of-age drama film
• Rocks (Das Rad), a 2001 German animated short
• Rock Records, a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980
• Uprock or rock, a form of street dance

Computing and technology

• Rock (processor), a microprocessor by Sun Microsystems
• Rocks Cluster Distribution, Linux distribution for cluster computing

Food

• Rock (confectionery), a type of stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery
• Rock candy, also known as sugar candy or rock sugar
• Rock salmon, often referred to as rock

Slang

• Crack cocaine or rock
• Diamond, or rock
• Gemstone, or rock

Sports

Teams and leagues

• "Rocks", a nickname of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team
• Toronto Rock, of the National Lacrosse League

Sports that use rocks

• Curling, a sport in which players slide a stone or rock on a sheet of ice, towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles
• Steinstossen, the Swiss variant of stone put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone or rock
• Stone put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone or rock
• Stone skipping (or stone skimming), the art of throwing a flat stone or rock

Other

• Rock (ski course) in China, the downhill course for the 2022 Winter Olympics

Other uses

• Alcatraz Prison, nicknamed "The Rock"
• Criminal rock throwing
• Distaff, a tool used in spinning
• Memorial Stadium (Indiana), on the Indiana University campus, also known as The Rock
• ROCK1, a human gene
• USS Rock (SS-274), a US Navy submarine
• Rock (landform), a type of islet
• ROCKS (missile), an Israeli air-to-surface missile

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Rock
• All pages with titles containing Rock
• .rocks
• ROC (disambiguation)
• ROCK (disambiguation)
• Rockey (disambiguation)
• Rockies (disambiguation)
• Rocky (disambiguation)
• Rok (disambiguation)
• Roque (disambiguation)
• Rox (disambiguation)
• The Rock (disambiguation)