Rock most often refers to:
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Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
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Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:
Places
United Kingdom
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Rock, Caerphilly, a in Wales
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Rock, Cornwall, a village in England
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Rock, County Tyrone, a village in Northern Ireland
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Rock, Devon, a in England
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Rock, Neath Port Talbot, a in Wales
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Rock, Northumberland, a village in England
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Rock, Somerset, a in England
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Rock, West Sussex, a hamlet in Washington, England
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Rock, Worcestershire, a village and civil parish in England
United States
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Rock, Kansas, an unincorporated community
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Rock, Michigan, an unincorporated community
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Rock, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
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Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin, a town in southern Wisconsin
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Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin, a town in central Wisconsin
Elsewhere
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Corregidor, an island in the Philippines also known as "The Rock"
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Jamaica, an island in the Caribbean is locally referred to as the "Rock"
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Niue, an island near Tonga referred to as the "Rock" by residents
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Rock of Gibraltar, a British overseas territory near the southernmost tip of Spain
Multiple entities
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Rock County (disambiguation)
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Rock Creek (disambiguation)
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Rock Island (disambiguation)
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Rock Lake (disambiguation)
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Rock River (disambiguation)
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Rock Mountain (disambiguation)
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Rock Township (disambiguation)
People
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Rock (name), a list of people with the surname, first name or nickname
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Rock (rapper) (born Jamal Bush in 1975), American rapper
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Man Mountain Rock, later stage name used by professional wrestler Maxx Payne
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Rock aka Blade Runner Rock, early ring name used by The Ultimate Warrior while as a member of the Blade Runners tag team.
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The Rock, (born Dwayne Johnson in 1972), American actor and wrestler
Arts, entertainment, and media
Fictional characters
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Rock (comics), a character in the DC Comics universe
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Rock (manga), a recurring, major character in most of Osamu Tezuka's manga series
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Rock Howard, the playable character in Garou: Mark of the Wolves
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Mega Man (character), also called Rock, from the Mega Man series
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Chuck Rock, the playable character in the 1991 self-titled side-scrolling platform video game
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Sgt. Rock, a DC Comics character
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Rocks D. Xebec, a fictional character from One Piece
Music
Albums
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Rock (album), by Pleymo (2003)
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Rock!!!!!, by Violent Femmes (1995)
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R.O.C.K., by Kirka (1986)
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Rock (Casting Pearls EP) (2002)
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Rocks (Aerosmith album) (1976)
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Rocks (Harem Scarem album) (2001)
Songs
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"Rock", by Joe Morris from Singularity (2001)
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"Rock", by Lemon Jelly from the single Soft/Rock (2001)
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"Rock" by Plies from the mixtape Ain't No Mixtape Bih 3 (2017)
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"Rock" by Groove Coverage from 21st Century (2006)
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"Rocks" (song), by Primal Scream (1994)
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"Rocks", by Imagine Dragons from Night Visions (2012)
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
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Rock (magazine), a former Yugoslav music magazine
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Rock, a novel by Hal Ellson
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Rocks (film), a 2019 British coming-of-age drama film
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Das Rad, a 2001 German animated short
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Rock Records, a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980
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Uprock or rock, a form of street dance
Computing and technology
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Rock (processor), a microprocessor by Sun Microsystems
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Rocks Cluster Distribution, Linux distribution for cluster computing
Food
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Rock (confectionery), a type of stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery
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Rock candy, also known as sugar candy or rock sugar
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Rock salmon, often referred to as rock
Slang
Sports
Teams and leagues
Sports that use rocks
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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
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Steinstossen, the Swiss variant of stone put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone or rock
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Stone put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone or rock
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Stone skipping (or stone skimming), the art of throwing a flat stone or rock
Other
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Rock (ski course) in China, the downhill course for the 2022 Winter Olympics
Other uses
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Alcatraz Prison, nicknamed "The Rock"
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Criminal rock throwing
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Distaff, a tool used in spinning
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Memorial Stadium (Indiana), on the Indiana University campus, also known as The Rock
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ROCK1, a human gene
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USS Rock (SS-274), a US Navy submarine
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Rock (landform), a type of islet
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ROCKS (missile), an Israeli air-to-surface missile
See also
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.rocks
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ROC (disambiguation)
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ROCK (disambiguation)
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Rockey (disambiguation)
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Rockies (disambiguation)
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Rocky (disambiguation)
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Rok (disambiguation)
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Roque (disambiguation)
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Rox (disambiguation)
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The Rock (disambiguation)
