ROA may refer to:

Sports and arts

  • Racehorse Owners Association, a British horse racing organisation
  • Refugee Olympics Athletes, a selection of refugees who will be competing under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics
  • Revolt On Antares, a science-fiction themed microgame designed by Tom Moldvay and produced by TSR in 1981
  • Rules of Acquisition, in the fictional Star Trek universe, a set of sacred guidelines intended to ensure the profitability of businesses owned by members of the ultra-capitalist alien race known as the Ferengi
  • X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, a video/computer game
  • Rivals of Aether, a 2017 fighting game

People

  • ROA (artist) (born c. 1975), pseudonym of a Belgian graffiti artist known for his large realistic depictions of animals in black-and-white
  • ROA Crewe-Milnes (1858–1945), a British statesman and writer

Government

  • ROA Time, the official time of Spain established by The Royal Institute and Observatory of the Spanish Navy in San Fernando, Cádiz
  • Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, United Kingdom act that enables some criminal convictions to be ignored after a rehabilitation period

Military

  • Reserve Officers Association, a professional association of officers, former officers, and spouses of all the uniformed services of the United States
  • Russian Liberation Army (РОА in Cyrillic letters, or ROA), a group of predominantly Russian forces subordinated to the Nazi German high command during World War II

Finance

  • Return on assets, a financial metric
  • Real Options Analysis, option valuation techniques for capital budgeting decisions

Science and medicine

  • Raman optical activity, a vibrational spectroscopic technique
  • Right occipito-anterior, a cephalic vertex presentation in childbirth where the fetus is in a longitudinal lie and the head enters the pelvis first
  • Roaccutane, a medication used mostly for cystic acne and in chemotherapy
  • Route of administration, in pharmacology and toxicology, the path by which a drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body
  • Route Origin Authorization (Internet routing), a cryptographically signed entry in IP registry databases that specifies the authorized source AS of a certain network
  • Rutgers Optimality Archive, an archive of work in Optimality Theory managed by Eric Bakovic

Schools

  • Retford Oaks Academy, a secondary school with academy status in the market town of Retford, Nottinghamshire, England
  • River Oaks Academy, a private kindergarten through 12th grade school in the Westchase district of Houston, Texas

Other uses

  • "Róa", a 2025 single by Væb representing Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest
  • Peugeot ROA, an Iranian made car
  • Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, IATA code
  • Rear Occupant Alert, a warning when a car door is closed from the outside with people still inside
  • Resource-oriented architecture, a style of software architecture and programming paradigm for designing and developing software
  • Reformed Armenian Orthography, a spelling reform of the Armenian alphabet in 1922–1924
  • Ruger Old Army, a black-powder percussion revolver introduced in 1972 by the Sturm, Ruger company
  • Republic of Artsakh, unrecognized state in Southern Caucasus
  • Route Origination Authorization, proof of authorization to announce a route for an IP prefix

See also

  • Roa (disambiguation)
  • Röa (disambiguation)