// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the hard drive say? I'm feeling a little rough.

Hard means something that is difficult to do. It may also refer to:

• Hardness, resistance of physical materials to deformation or fracture
• Hard water, water with high mineral content

Arts and entertainment

• Hard (band), a Hungarian hard rock supergroup
• Hard, 1998 film directed by John Huckert
• Hard (music festival), in the U.S.
• Hard (TV series), a French TV series

Albums and EPs

• Hard (Gang of Four album), 1983
• Hard (Jagged Edge album), 2003
• Hard (Shinee album), or its title track, 2023
• Hard, by Brainpower, 2008
• Hard, by Goodbye Mr Mackenzie, 1993
• Hard, by The Neighbourhood, 2017

Songs

• "Hard" (Rihanna song), 2009
• "Hard" (Sophie song), 2014
• "Hard", by FKA Twigs from Eusexua Afterglow, 2025
• "Hard", by Poppy from Zig, 2023
• "Hard", by Royce da 5'9" from Layers, 2016
• "Hard", by Why Don't We from 8 Letters, 2018

Places

• Hard, Austria
• Hard (Zürich), Switzerland

Other uses

• Hard (surname)
• Hard architecture, impersonal windowless buildings with graffiti-resistant walls usually associated with prisons and other secure structures
• Nickname of Masaki Sumitani ( HardGay / HardoGay )
• Hard (nautical), a beach or slope convenient for hauling out vessels
• hard, slang for an erection
• Hayward Area Recreation and Park District, California, U.S.
• Hard, consonants that are not palatalized

See also

• All pages with titles beginning with Hard
• All pages with titles containing hard
• Hardcourt or hard court, is a surface or floor on which a sport is played
• Hardtack
• Hardware (disambiguation)
• Computational hardness assumption