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

• Rock (landform), a type of islet

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

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 ring 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
• Rocks D. Xebec, from One Piece
• Rock, from Rock Paper Scissors

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

• "Rocks" (song), by Primal Scream (1994)
• "Rock", by Groove Coverage from 21st Century (2006)
• "Rock", by Lemon Jelly from the single "Soft/Rock" (2001)
• "Rock", by Joe Morris from Singularity (2001)
• "Rocks", by Dry Cleaning from Secret Love (2026)
• "Rocks", by Imagine Dragons from Night Visions (2012)

Other uses in music

• Rock music, a genre of popular music
• Rock (magazine), a 1982–1990 Yugoslav music magazine
• Rock Records, a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980

Literature

• Rock, a 1953 novel by Hal Ellson
• Rock (magazine), a 1982–1990 Yugoslav music magazine

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Rocks (film), a 2019 British coming-of-age drama movie
• Rocks (Das Rad), a 2001 German animated short film
• Uprock or rock, a form of street dance

Computing

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

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 before being smoked, known as rock
• Diamond, or rock
• Gemstone, or rock
• Rocks, ice cubes in alcoholic drinks

Sports

• Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team, nicknamed "Rocks"
• Toronto Rock, of the National Lacrosse League
• Rock (ski course) in China, the downhill course for the 2022 Winter Olympics

Other uses

• Alcatraz Prison, nicknamed "The Rock"
• Distaff, a tool used in spinning
• ROCK1, a human gene
• USS Rock (SS/SSR/AGSS-274), a US Navy submarine
• ROCKS (missile), an Israeli air-to-surface missile

See also

• The Rock (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles beginning with Rock
• All pages with titles containing Rock
• Rock County (disambiguation)
• Rock Creek (disambiguation)
• Rock Island (disambiguation)
• Rock Lake (disambiguation)
• Rock River (disambiguation)
• Rock Mountain (disambiguation)
• Rock Township (disambiguation)
• Criminal rock throwing
• ROC (disambiguation)
• ROCK (disambiguation)
• Rockey (disambiguation)
• Rockies (disambiguation)
• Rocky (disambiguation)
• Rok (disambiguation)
• Roque (disambiguation)
• Rox (disambiguation)