Knock may refer to:

Places

Northern Ireland

Knock, Belfast Victoria was one of the Electoral wards of Belfast, nine district electoral areas (DEA) in Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 1985 to 2014, when it was mostly replaced by the Ormiston (District Electoral Area), Ormiston district. Located in the e ...

, 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 (Ireland), R486 road passes through the village. According to the geographer Samu ...

, 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 village in County Mayo, Ireland. Knock is also a civil parish in the ancient barony of Costello. It is notable a ...

, village in County Mayo *

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

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

Ireland West Airport Ireland West Airport , officially known as Ireland West Airport Knock, and formerly known as Horan International Airport, commonly known as Knock Airport, is an international airport south-west of Charlestown, County Mayo, Ireland. The villa ...

, commonly known as Knock Airport

Scotland

* Knock, Mull, a place on the

Isle of Mull The Isle of Mull or simply Mull ( ) 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 Argyll and Bute. Covering , Mull is the fourth-lar ...

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

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

* Knock, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides * Knock railway station (Scotland), Aberdeenshire * The Knock, West Lothian, highest natural summit of the Bathgate Hills

Elsewhere

* Knock, Cumbria, England * Knock,

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

, 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 Television in the United Kingdom, British television crime drama, created by Anita Bronson and broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV, which portrayed the activities of customs officers from the London City & South Collection In ...

'' (1994-2000), a UK television drama * " The Knock (Drums of Death, Pt. 2)", 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 securit ...

* Knock, a slang term meaning to render a negative

evaluation In common usage, evaluation is a systematic determination and assessment of a subject's merit, worth and significance, using criteria governed by a set of Standardization, standards. It can assist an organization, program, design, project or any o ...

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 and the longest self-propelled ship in history. It was built in 1974–1979 by Sumitomo Heavy Industries ...

, 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 ...

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

HM Revenue and Customs His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (commonly HM Revenue and Customs, or HMRC, and formerly Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) is a department of the UK government responsible for the collection of taxes, the payment of some forms of stat ...

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