Rock
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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
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)
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