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, Cornwall, a village in England
• Rock, County Tyrone, a village in Northern Ireland
• Rock, Northumberland, a village in England
• Rock, Worcestershire, a village and civil parish in England
• Rock, a hamlet in Washington, West Sussex, England

United States

• Rock, Kansas, an unincorporated community
• Rock, Michigan, an unincorporated community
• Rock, Missouri, 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
• The Rock, (born Dwayne Johnson in 1972), American actor and wrestler
• Man Mountain Rock, later stage name used by professional wrestler Maxx Payne

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

• Rock (comics), 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), from the series of the same name, whose other name is Rock
• Chuck Rock, the playable character in the 1991 self-titled side-scrolling platform video game
• Sgt. Rock, a DC Comics character

Literature

• Rock (magazine), a former Yugoslav music magazine
• Rock, a novel by Hal Ellson

Music

Labels

• Rock Records, a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980

Albums

• Rock (album), a 2003 nu-metal album by Pleymo
• Rock (Casting Pearls EP) (2002)
• Rocks (Aerosmith album) (1976)
• Rocks (Harem Scarem album) (2001)
• R.O.C.K., a 1986 hard rock/heavy metal album by Kirka
• Rock!!!!!, an album released by Violent Femmes in 1995
• The Cosmos Rocks, a studio album by Queen and Paul Rodgers (2008)

Songs

• "Rocks" (song), by Primal Scream (1994)
• "Rock" a 2017 song by hip hop artist Plies from his mixtape "Ain't No Mixtape Bih 3"
• "Rock", one of the tracks on "Soft/Rock", a single by Lemon Jelly

Computing and technology

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

Food

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

Slang

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

Sports

• Stone skipping
• Steinstossen
• Stone put
• Rock, used in the sport of curling
• "Rocks", a nickname of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team
• Toronto Rock, of the National Lacrosse League

Other uses

• Criminal rock throwing
• Distaff, a tool used in spinning
• Memorial Stadium (Indiana), on the Indiana University campus, also known as The Rock
• Uprock or rock, a form of street dance
• USS Rock (SS-274), a US Navy submarine

See also

• All pages beginning with Rock
• All pages with a title containing Rock
• .rocks
• ROC (disambiguation)
• ROCK (disambiguation)
• ROCK1, a human gene
• Rockey (disambiguation)
• Rockies (disambiguation)
• Rocky (disambiguation)
• Rok (disambiguation)
• Roque (disambiguation)
• Rox (disambiguation)
• The Rock (disambiguation)