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, 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

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
  • 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

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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, a fictional character from One Piece

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)
  • "Rock", by Plies from the mixtape Ain't No Mixtape Bih 3 (2017)
  • "Rocks", by Dry Cleaning from Secret Love (2026)
  • "Rocks", by Imagine Dragons from Night Visions (2012)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Rock (magazine), a former Yugoslav music magazine
  • Rock, a novel by Hal Ellson
  • Rocks (film), a 2019 British coming-of-age drama film
  • Rocks (Das Rad), a 2001 German animated short
  • Rock Records, a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980
  • Uprock or rock, a form of street dance

Computing and technology

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

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 is known as rock
  • Diamond, or rock
  • Gemstone, or rock
  • Rocks, ice cubes in alcoholic drinks

Sports

  • "Rocks", a nickname of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team
  • 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"
  • Criminal rock throwing
  • Distaff, a tool used in spinning
  • Memorial Stadium (Indiana), on the Indiana University campus, also known as The Rock<!--move to The Rock (disambiguation)-->
  • ROCK1, a human gene
  • USS Rock (SS-274), a US Navy submarine
  • Rock (landform), a type of islet
  • ROCKS (missile), an Israeli air-to-surface missile

See also

  • .rocks
  • ROC (disambiguation)
  • ROCK (disambiguation)
  • Rockey (disambiguation)
  • Rockies (disambiguation)
  • Rocky (disambiguation)
  • Rok (disambiguation)
  • Roque (disambiguation)
  • Rox (disambiguation)
  • The Rock (disambiguation)