Knock may refer to:

Places

Northern Ireland

Knock, Belfast Victoria was one of the nine district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1985 to 2014, when it was mostly replaced by the Ormiston district. Located in the east of the city, the district elected seven members to Belfast C ...

, County Down * Knock, County Armagh, a townland in County Armagh

Republic of Ireland

Knock, County Clare Knock () is a village in County Clare, Ireland. It is located at the northern banks of Clonderalaw Bay which is connected to the River Shannon, and the R486 road passes through the village. According to the geographer Samuel Lewis, the paris ...

, village in County Clare *

Knock, County Mayo Knock (, meaning ''The Hill'' – but now more generally known in Irish as ''Cnoc Mhuire'', "Hill of (the Virgin) Mary") is a large village in County Mayo, Ireland. Its notability is derived from the Knock Shrine, a Catholic shrine and place ...

, village in County Mayo *

Knock Shrine The Sanctuary of Our Lady of Knock, commonly referred to as Knock Shrine, is a Roman Catholic pilgrimage site and national shrine in the village of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland, where locals claimed to have seen an apparition in 1879 of the Ble ...

, a major Roman Catholic pilgrimage site in the village of Knock, County Mayo *

Ireland West Airport Knock Ireland West Airport ( ga, Aerfort Iarthar Éireann Mhuire), officially known as Ireland West Airport Knock ( ga, Aerfort Iarthar Éireann Chnoc Mhuire), is an international airport south-west of Charlestown, County Mayo, Ireland. The vi ...

, commonly known as Knock Airport

Scotland

* Knock, Mull, a place on the

Isle of Mull The Isle of Mull ( gd, An t-Eilean Muileach ) or just Mull (; gd, Muile, links=no ) is the second-largest island of the Inner Hebrides (after Skye) and lies off the west coast of Scotland in the Council areas of Scotland, council area of Arg ...

, Argyll and Bute, Scotland * Knock, Moray, a

location In geography, location or place are used to denote a region (point, line, or area) on Earth's surface or elsewhere. The term ''location'' generally implies a higher degree of certainty than ''place'', the latter often indicating an entity with an ...

* Knock, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides *

Knock railway station (Scotland) Knock railway station was an intermediate stop situated on the Great North of Scotland Railway (GNoSR) line from Grange and Cairnie Junction to . Knock served the rural community and later the Knockdhu Distillery in Banffshire. The line northw ...

, Aberdeenshire

Elsewhere

Knock, Cumbria Knock is a small village in the Eden district of Cumbria, England, and 1.9 km northwest of the larger village of Dufton and 3.1 km south of the village of Milburn. It lies midway between Cross Fell to the north and the town of Apple ...

, England * Knock,

East Frisia East Frisia or East Friesland (german: Ostfriesland; ; stq, Aastfräislound) is a historic region in the northwest of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is primarily located on the western half of the East Frisian peninsula, to the east of West Frisia ...

, Germany

Art and entertainment

* ''Knock'' (play), a 1923 play by Jules Romains about a doctor * "Knock" (short story), by Fredric Brown, supposedly the shortest short-story ever written * ''

The Knock ''The Knock'' is a British television crime drama, created by Anita Bronson and broadcast on ITV, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from the London City & South Collection Investigation Unit of HM Customs and Excise. The serie ...

'' (1994-2000), a UK television drama * "

The Knock (Drums of Death, Pt. 2) ''The Knock'' is a British television crime drama, created by Anita Bronson and broadcast on ITV, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from the London City & South Collection Investigation Unit of HM Customs and Excise. The serie ...

", a song by UNKLE from the album ''Psyence Fiction'' (1998) * ''Knock'' (1925 film), a French silent comedy film * ''Knock'' (1933 film), a French comedy film * ''Knock'' (2017 film), a French film starring Omar Sy * Dr. Knock, original titled Knock, a 1951 French comedy film

Other uses

* Knock, to tap on a

door A door is a hinged or otherwise movable barrier that allows ingress (entry) into and egress (exit) from an enclosure. The created opening in the wall is a ''doorway'' or ''portal''. A door's essential and primary purpose is to provide security b ...

* Knock, a slang term meaning to render a negative

evaluation Evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any other intervention or initiative ...

or assessment *

Engine knocking In spark ignition internal combustion engines, knocking (also knock, detonation, spark knock, pinging or pinking) occurs when combustion of some of the air/fuel mixture in the cylinder does not result from propagation of the flame front ignite ...

, in spark-ignition internal combustion engines *

Knock Nevis TT ''Seawise Giant''—earlier ''Oppama''; later ''Happy Giant'', ''Jahre Viking'', ''Knock Nevis'', and ''Mont''—was a ULCC supertanker that was the longest self-propelled ship in history, built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries in ...

, a Norwegian supertanker formerly known as Seawise Giant, Happy Giant, and Jahre Viking * The Knock, another term for

hitting the wall In endurance sports such as road cycling and long-distance running, hitting the wall or the bonk is a condition of sudden fatigue and loss of energy which is caused by the depletion of glycogen stores in the liver and muscles. Milder instances c ...

, in endurance sports * The Knock, a slang term for ''

HM Revenue and Customs HM Revenue and Customs (His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, or HMRC) is a non-ministerial government department, non-ministerial Departments of the United Kingdom Government, department of the His Majesty's Government, UK Government responsible fo ...

'', UK tax-collecting body * Knock F.C., a football club in Belfast, Northern Ireland