Rock most often refers to: *

Rock (geology) In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its Chemical compound, chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks ...

, a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids *

Rock music Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and ...

, a genre of popular music Rock or Rocks may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

* Rock, Caerphilly, 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 ...

in Wales * Rock, Cornwall, a village in England * Rock, County Tyrone, a village in Northern Ireland * Rock, Devon, a

in England * Rock, Neath Port Talbot, a

in Wales * Rock, Northumberland, a village in England * Rock, Somerset, a

in Wales * 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 Rock is a town in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 856 at the 2000 census. The unincorporated communities of Lindsey and Nasonville are located in the town. Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the t ...

, a town in central Wisconsin

Elsewhere

Corregidor Corregidor ( tl, Pulo ng Corregidor, ) is an island located at the entrance of Manila Bay in the southwestern part of Luzon in the Philippines, and is considered part of the Province of Cavite. Due to this location, Corregidor has historicall ...

, an island in the Philippines also known as "The Rock" *

Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of Hispan ...

, an island in the Caribbean is locally referred to as the "Rock" *

Niue Niue (, ; niu, Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Zealand. Niue's land area is about and its population, predominantly Polynesian, was about 1,600 in 2016. Niue is located in a triangle between Tong ...

, 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 County is the name of three counties in the United States: * Rock County, Minnesota * Rock County, Nebraska * Rock County, Wisconsin Rock County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 163 ...

* Rock Creek (disambiguation) * Rock Island (disambiguation) * Rock Lake (disambiguation) * Rock River (disambiguation) * Rock Mountain (disambiguation) *

Rock Township (disambiguation) Rock Township may refer to: ;in the United States * Rock Township, Cherokee County, Iowa * Rock Township, Lyon County, Iowa * Rock Township, Mitchell County, Iowa * Rock Township, Sioux County, Iowa, in Sioux County, Iowa Sioux County is a ...

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 stage name used by professional wrestler Maxx Payne * Rock aka Blade Runner Rock, early ring name used by

The Ultimate Warrior Warrior (born James Brian Hellwig; June 16, 1959 – April 8, 2014) was an American professional wrestler and bodybuilder. Best known by his ring name The Ultimate Warrior, he wrestled for the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) from 1 ...

while as a member of the Blade Runners tag team. * The Rock, (born

Dwayne Johnson Dwayne Douglas Johnson (born May 2, 1972), also known by his ring name The Rock, is an American actor and former professional wrestler. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he was integral to the develop ...

in 1972), American actor and wrestler

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Rock (comics) Armando Ramon Armando Ramon (alternately spelled Armando Ramone and also known as Reverb, Rupture and Hardline) is the older brother of Cisco Ramon / Vibe and Dante Ramon. Created by Gerry Conway and Chuck Patton, the character first appeare ...

, a character in the DC Comics universe *

Rock (manga) Rock (known in some series as Rokuro Makube a.k.a. Rock Macbeth or ) is a recurrent major character in most of Osamu Tezuka's manga series, and he is an important part of Osamu Tezuka's Star System. As all of Tezuka's main characters he is see ...

, 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

Music

Albums

* ''Rock'' (album), a 2003 nu-metal album by Pleymo * ''Rocks'' (Aerosmith album) (1976) * ''Rock'' (Casting Pearls EP) (2002) * '' R.O.C.K.'', a 1986 hard rock/heavy metal album by Kirka * '' Rock!!!!!'', an album released by Violent Femmes in 1995 * ''Rocks'' (Harem Scarem album) (2001) * '' The Cosmos Rocks'', a studio album by Queen and Paul Rodgers (2008)

Songs

* "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 * "Rocks" (song), by Primal Scream (1994)

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) Rock (or ROCK) was a multithreading, multicore, SPARC microprocessor under development at Sun Microsystems. Canceled in 2010, it was a separate project from the SPARC T-Series (CoolThreads/Niagara) family of processors. Rock aimed at higher per ...

, 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 Crack cocaine, commonly known simply as crack, and also known as rock, is a free base form of the stimulant cocaine that can be smoked. Crack offers a short, intense high to smokers. The ''Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment'' call ...

or rock *

Diamond Diamond is a solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Another solid form of carbon known as graphite is the chemically stable form of carbon at room temperature and pressure, ...

, or rock * Gemstone, or rock

Sports

Teams and leagues

* "Rocks", a nickname of the

Colorado Rockies The Colorado Rockies are an American professional baseball team based in Denver. The Rockies compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The team plays its home baseball games at Coors Fi ...

Major League Baseball team * Toronto Rock, of the National Lacrosse League

Sports that use rocks

Curling Curling is a sport in which players slide stones on a sheet of ice toward a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles. It is related to bowls, boules, and shuffleboard. Two teams, each with four players, take turns sliding ...

, a sport in which players slide a stone or rock on a sheet of ice, towards a target area which is segmented into four concentric circles * Steinstossen, the Swiss variant of stone put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone or rock * Stone put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone or rock * Stone skipping (or stone skimming), the art of throwing a flat stone or rock

Other

* Rock (ski course) in China, the downhill course for the 2022 Winter Olympics

Other uses

Alcatraz Prison United States Penitentiary, Alcatraz Island, also known simply as Alcatraz (, ''"the gannet"'') or The Rock was a maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, off the coast of San Francisco, California, United States, the site of a for ...

, 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 * ROCK1, a human gene * USS ''Rock'' (SS-274), a US Navy submarine *

Rock (landform) An islet is a very small, often unnamed island. Most definitions are not precise, but some suggest that an islet has little or no vegetation and cannot support human habitation. It may be made of rock, sand and/or hard coral; may be permanent ...

, a type of islet