ROA may refer to:

Sports and arts

Racehorse Owners Association The Racehorse Owners Association (ROA) is a British horse racing organisation that promotes and protects the interests of racehorse owners in Great Britain. As one of the British Horseracing Authority, British Horseracing Authority's (BHA) shar ...

, a British horse racing organisation * Refugee Olympics Athletes, a selection of refugees who will be competing under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics * Revolt On Antares, a science-fiction themed microgame designed by Tom Moldvay and produced by TSR in 1981 * Rules of Acquisition, in the fictional Star Trek universe, a set of sacred guidelines intended to ensure the profitability of businesses owned by members of the ultra-capitalist alien race known as the Ferengi *'' X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse'', a video/computer game *''

Rivals of Aether ''Rivals of Aether'' is a platform fighter game created by Dan Fornace, and released for Microsoft Windows in March 2017, for Xbox One in August 2017, and for Nintendo Switch in September 2020. It received positive reception from critics, who com ...

'', a 2017 fighting game

People

ROA (artist) ROA (born c. 1976) is a graffiti and Street art, street artist from Ghent, Belgium. He has created works on the streets of cities across Europe, the United States, Australia, Asia, New Zealand and Africa. ROA generally paints wild or urban ...

(born c. 1975), pseudonym of a Belgian graffiti artist known for his large realistic depictions of animals in black-and-white * ROA Crewe-Milnes (1858–1945), a British statesman and writer

Government

ROA Time ROA Time is the official time of Spain. It is established by ROA, the Royal Institute and Observatory of the ''Armada'' (Armada being the name of the Spanish Navy in Spanish), at San Fernando, Cádiz. Broadcasting methods ROA broadcasts the ...

, the official time of Spain established by The Royal Institute and Observatory of the Spanish Navy in San Fernando, Cádiz *

Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 The Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (c. 53) of the UK Parliament enables some criminal convictions to be ignored after a rehabilitation period. Its purpose is that people do not have a lifelong blot on their records because of a relatively ...

, United Kingdom act that enables some criminal convictions to be ignored after a rehabilitation period

Military

Reserve Officers Association The ROA (d/b/a Reserve Organization of America) is a professional association of commissioned officers, non-commissioned officers, former officers, enlisted and spouses of the uniformed services of the United States, primarily with the Reserv ...

, a professional association of officers, former officers, and spouses of all the uniformed services of the United States *

Russian Liberation Army The Russian Liberation Army (; , ), also known as the Vlasov army () was a collaborationist formation, primarily composed of Russians, that fought under German command during World War II. From January 1945, the army was led by Andrey Vlasov, ...

(''РОА'' in Cyrillic letters, or ROA), a group of predominantly Russian forces subordinated to the Nazi German high command during World War II

Finance

Return on assets The return on assets (ROA) shows the percentage of how profitable a company's assets are in generating revenue. ROA can be computed as below: :\mathrm = \frac The phrase return on average assets (ROAA) is also used, to emphasize that average as ...

, a financial metric *

Real Options Analysis Real options valuation, also often termed real options analysis,Adam Borison (Stanford University)''Real Options Analysis: Where are the Emperor's Clothes?'' (ROV or ROA) applies option valuation techniques to capital budgeting decisions.Campb ...

, option valuation techniques for capital budgeting decisions

Science and medicine

Raman optical activity Raman optical activity (ROA) is a vibrational spectroscopic technique that is reliant on the difference in intensity of Raman scattered right and left circularly polarised light due to molecular chirality. History of Raman optical activity The ...

, a vibrational spectroscopic technique * Right occipito-anterior, a cephalic vertex presentation in childbirth where the fetus is in a longitudinal lie and the head enters the pelvis first * Roaccutane, a medication used mostly for cystic acne and in chemotherapy *

Route of administration In pharmacology and toxicology, a route of administration is the way by which a medication, drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body. Routes of administration are generally classified by the location at which the substance ...

, in pharmacology and toxicology, the path by which a drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body * Route Origin Authorization (Internet routing), a cryptographically signed entry in IP registry databases that specifies the authorized source AS of a certain network * Rutgers Optimality Archive, an archive of work in Optimality Theory managed by Eric Bakovic

Schools

* Retford Oaks Academy, a secondary school with academy status in the market town of Retford, Nottinghamshire, England *

River Oaks Academy River Oaks Academy is a private school at 10600 Richmond Avenue in the Westchase district of Houston, Texas, United States. The school covers grades Kindergarten through 12. History The school opened in 1988. In the 1990s, after voters rejecte ...

, a private kindergarten through 12th grade school in the Westchase district of Houston, Texas *

Other uses

* "Róa", a 2025 single by Væb representing Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest * Peugeot ROA, an Iranian made car * Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, IATA code *

Rear Occupant Alert Rear Occupant Alert (ROA) is motor vehicle manufacturer Hyundai Motor Company's automated vehicle alert system to detect the presence of an occupant in the rear seat of a passenger motor vehicle. The basic system uses door logic. If a rear door is ...

, a warning when a car door is closed from the outside with people still inside *

Resource-oriented architecture In software engineering, a resource-oriented architecture (ROA) is a style of software architecture and programming paradigm for supportive designing and developing software in the form of Internetworking of resources with "RESTful" interfaces. The ...

, a style of software architecture and programming paradigm for designing and developing software *

Reformed Armenian Orthography The Armenian orthography reform occurred between 1922 and 1924 in Soviet Armenia and was partially revised in 1940. Its main features "were the neutralization of classical, etymological writing and the adjustment of phonetic realization and writing ...

, a spelling reform of the Armenian alphabet in 1922–1924 *

Ruger Old Army The Ruger Old Army is a black-powder percussion revolver introduced in 1972 by the Sturm, Ruger company and manufactured through 2008. Models were available with either a or barrel. Design The Ruger Old Army revolver is unusual in that, unlike ...

, a black-powder percussion revolver introduced in 1972 by the Sturm, Ruger company *

Republic of Artsakh Artsakh ( ), officially the Republic of Artsakh or the Republic of Nagorno-Karabakh ( ), was a breakaway state in the South Caucasus whose territory was internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan. Between 1991 and 2023, Artsakh cont ...

, unrecognized state in Southern Caucasus * Route Origination Authorization, proof of authorization to announce a route for an IP prefix