Bark may refer to:

Common meanings

Bark (botany) Bark is the outermost layer of Plant stem, stems and roots of woody plants. Plants with bark include trees, woody vines, and shrubs. Bark refers to all the Tissue (biology), tissues outside the vascular cambium and is a nontechnical term. It ov ...

, an outer layer of a woody plant such as a tree or stick *

Bark (sound) A bark is a sound most often produced by dogs. Other animals that make this noise include, but are not limited to, wolves, coyotes, foxes, seals, frogs and owls. "Bark" is also a verb that describes the sound of many canids. Definition ...

, a vocalization of some animals (which is commonly the dog)

Arts and entertainment

* ''Bark'' (Jefferson Airplane album), 1971 * ''Bark'' (Blackie and the Rodeo Kings album) * ''Bark'' (short story collection), a short story collection by Lorrie Moore * ''

Bark! ''Bark!'' is a 2002 film written by Heather Morgan, directed by Katarzyna Adamik (the daughter of director Agnieszka Holland) and starring Morgan, Lee Tergesen, and Lisa Kudrow. The film debuted at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival, where it wa ...

'', a 2002 film * Bark the Polar Bear, a character in the ''

Sonic the Hedgehog is a video game series and media franchise created by the Japanese developers Yuji Naka, Naoto Ohshima, and Hirokazu Yasuhara for Sega. The franchise follows Sonic the Hedgehog (character), Sonic, an anthropomorphic blue hedgehog who battle ...

'' series

Food

Almond bark Almond bark (also known as vanilla flavored candy coating) is a chocolate-like confection made with vegetable fats instead of cocoa butter and with coloring and flavors added. It can be bought in packages, blocks, or round discs where candy and ...

, a confection *

Peppermint bark Peppermint bark is a chocolate confection. Generally, it consists of peppermint candy pieces, such as candy canes, in white chocolate on top of dark chocolate, but peppermint bark can refer to any chocolate with peppermint candy pieces in it. I ...

, a confection

Places

Bark, Germany Bark is a municipality in the district of Segeberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the A ...

, a municipality * Bark, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, Poland, a village *

Bark Lake Bark Lake is a lake on the border between the Township of Madawaska Valley in Renfrew County and the Township of South Algonquin, in Nipissing District in Ontario, Canada. It lies near Madawaska, Ontario, on the Madawaska River where the tributar ...

, Ontario, Canada * six other Bark Lakes in Ontario - see List of lakes of Ontario: B *

Bark River (Michigan) Bark River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed December 19, 2011 river on the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan. The river flows into Green Bay on Lake Mich ...

, United States *

Bark River (Rock River) The Bark River is a tributary of the Rock River, about long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed May 13, 2011 in southeastern Wisconsin in the United States. Via the Rock ...

, United States, a tributary of the Rock River *

Bark River (Lake Superior) Bark River may refer to the following places or geographical features in the United States: Rivers * Bark River (Michigan), a river in Michigan * Bark River (Rock River), a river in Wisconsin, tributary of the Rock River * Bark River (Lake Superi ...

, a river in Wisconsin, United States, a tributary of Lake Superior

People

Ernesto Bark Ernst Moritz Heinrich Bark Schultz (1858–1922), also known as Ernesto Bark, was a Livonian writer, journalist and political activist based in Spain. He took part in the Bohemian scene in Madrid. Biography Born on 23 March 1858 in Kaava, La ...

(1858–1922), Livonian journalist and political activist, exiled in Spain *

Jane Bark Jane Ulla Margareta Bark née Årfelt (9 April 1931 – 14 January 2023) was a Swedish illustrator. She worked first as a commercial artist for ''Dagens Nyheter'' and went on to illustrate stories in various magazines including ' in the 1960s and ...

(1931–2023), Swedish illustrator *

Pyotr Bark Pyotr Lvovich Bark (; ; 18 April 1869 – 16 January 1937), later Sir Peter Bark was a Russian government official and later a banker. Biography Bark was born in Novotroitskoye village in Yekaterinoslav Governorate. He descended from a B ...

(1869–1937), Russian government official and banker, Russian Empire Minister of Finance

Other uses

* Bark or

barque A barque, barc, or bark is a type of sailing ship, sailing vessel with three or more mast (sailing), masts of which the fore mast, mainmast, and any additional masts are Square rig, rigged square, and only the aftmost mast (mizzen in three-maste ...

, a type of sailing ship * βARK,

Beta adrenergic receptor kinase G-protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ''ADRBK1'' gene. GRK2 was initially called Beta-adrenergic receptor kinase (βARK or βARK1), and is a member of the G protein-coupled receptor kinase subfa ...

, an intracellular enzyme *

BARK (computer) BARK () was an early Electromechanics, electromechanical computer built in 1950. BARK was built using standard relay, telephone relays, implementing a 32-bit binary machine. It could perform addition in 150 ms and multiplication in 250 ms. It had ...

, an early Swedish electromechanical computer *

BARK (organization) BARK is an Oregon, United States, non-profit organization that was created to combat logging, clear-cutting, deforestation and projects members say cause "commercial destruction" in Oregon forests, specifically those of the Mt. Hood National Fores ...

, an American environmentalist organization * ''Bark!'', a magazine published by