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 is a Music genre, genre of popular music that originated in the United States as "rock and roll" in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of styles from the mid-1960s, primarily in the United States and the United Kingdo ...

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

Places

United Kingdom

* Rock, Caerphilly, 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 ...

in Wales *

Rock, Cornwall Rock () is a coastal fishing village in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is opposite Padstow on the north-east bank of the River Camel estuary. The village is in the civil parish of St Minver, St Minver Lowlands about north-west of Wade ...

, 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 Rock is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Rennington, in Northumberland, England about north of Alnwick. In 1951 the parish had a population of 162. Buildings The single street has on one side cottages and gardens; on th ...

, a village in England * Rock, Somerset, a

in England * Rock, West Sussex, a hamlet in Washington, England *

Rock, Worcestershire Rock is a village and Civil parishes in England, civil parish in the Wyre Forest (district), Wyre Forest District of Worcestershire, England, which lies south-west of Bewdley. It had a population of 2,366 in 2001. In the parish is Fingerpost, ...

, a village and civil parish in England

United States

Rock, Kansas Rock is a census-designated place (CDP) in Cowley County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 94. History 19th century The post office was established on August 12, 1870. In 1877, the Florence, El Dorado, and ...

, an unincorporated community *

Rock, Michigan Rock is an unincorporated community in Delta County, Michigan, United States. Rock is located in Maple Ridge Township along M-35 and the Canadian National Railway, north-northwest of Gladstone. Rock has a post office with ZIP code 49880. De ...

, an unincorporated community * Rock, West Virginia, an unincorporated community *

Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin The Town of Rock is a located in Rock County, Wisconsin, Rock County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 2,981 at the 2020 census. The unincorporated community of Afton, Wisconsin, Afton is in the town. Geography According to the Unite ...

, a town in southern Wisconsin *

Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin The Town of Rock is located 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 Censu ...

, a town in central Wisconsin

Elsewhere

Corregidor 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 Cavite City and thus the province of Cavite. It is located west of Manila, the nation's capi ...

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

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

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

Niue Niue is a self-governing island country in free association with New Zealand. It is situated in the South Pacific Ocean and is part of Polynesia, and predominantly inhabited by Polynesians. One of the world's largest coral islands, Niue is c ...

, an island near Tonga referred to as the "Rock" by residents *

Rock of Gibraltar The Rock of Gibraltar (from the Arabic name Jabal Ṭāriq , meaning "Mountain of Tariq ibn Ziyad, Tariq") is a monolithic limestone mountain high dominating the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It is situated near the end of a nar ...

, 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 {{Geodis, uscounty ...

Rock Creek (disambiguation) Rock Creek or Rockcreek may refer to: Streams United States * Rock Creek (California) * Rock Creek (Fountain Creek tributary), Colorado * Rock Creek (Idaho) * Rock Creek (Kankakee River tributary), Illinois * Rock Creek (Wapsipinicon River t ...

Rock Island (disambiguation) Rock Island may refer to: * islets known as rocks or rock islands Places * Rock Island Township (disambiguation) Canada Islands * Rock Island (Nunavut) * Rock Islands (Lake Nipissing), an island in Ontario Communities * Rock Island, ...

Rock Lake (disambiguation) Rock Lake is the name of several locations: United States * Rock Lake (White Cloud Mountains), Idaho * Rock Lake (Lyon County, Minnesota) * Rock Lake (Cass County, Minnesota) * Rock Lake (Wright County, Minnesota) * Rock Lake Township, Lyon Cou ...

Rock River (disambiguation) Rock River may refer to: Streams ;United States * Rock River (Mississippi River tributary), a tributary of the Mississippi River in Wisconsin and Illinois * Rock River (Big Sioux River tributary), a tributary of the Big Sioux River in Minnesota a ...

Rock Mountain (disambiguation) Rock Mountain could refer to these places in the United States of America: * Rock Mountain (Georgia) * Rock Mountain (Washington state), in the Central Cascade Range * Rock Mountain (Wyoming), Albany County, Wyoming {{geodis ...

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 * Rock Township, Woo ...

People

Rock (name) Rock is an English and German surname, a given name and a nickname. Surname Politicians and activists * Allan Rock (born 1947), Canadian Justice Minister, Health Minister and diplomat * Heraldine Rock (1933–2012), Saint Lucian politician * Jo ...

, a list of people with the surname, first name or nickname *

Rock (rapper) Heltah Skeltah was an American hip hop duo which consisted of rappers Jahmal "Rock" Bush and Sean "Ruck" Price. The two were also members of New York supergroup Boot Camp Clik, along with Buckshot, Smif-N-Wessun and O.G.C. Biography ...

(born Jamal Bush in 1975), American rapper * Man Mountain Rock, later stage name used by professional wrestler

Maxx Payne Darryl Peterson (born October 3, 1961) is an American musician, actor and retired professional wrestler. He is best known for his time in World Championship Wrestling as Maxx Payne, and in the World Wrestling Federation as Man Mountain Rock. ...

* 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 wrestling, professional wrestler, Bodybuilding, bodybuilder and Motivational speaker, motivational speaker. Best known by his ring name The Ultima ...

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 professional wrestler. He is signed to WWE, where he performs on a part-time basis. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional w ...

in 1972), American actor and wrestler

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional characters

Rock (comics) Ra's al Ghul Nyssa Raatko Rag Doll Rag Doll is the name of several supervillains appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The first, Peter Merkel, is a villain of the original Flash, while the second is an enemy of Starm ...

, a character in the DC Comics universe *

Rock (manga) is the name given to the recurring characters in manga created by manga artist Osamu Tezuka. Throughout his career, Tezuka frequently re-used the same character designs or names in different roles across his series; for example, the character ...

, a recurring, major character in most of Osamu Tezuka's manga series *

Rock Howard is a fictional character appearing in various games from SNK. Previously debuted as a non-playable character in '' Fatal Fury 3: Road to the Final Victory'' Rock makes his first playable appearance in the 1999 fighting game '' Garou: Mark of the ...

, the playable character in ''Garou: Mark of the Wolves'' *

Mega Man (character) Mega Man, known as in Japan, is the title character and the main protagonist of the ''Mega Man'' series by Capcom. He was created by Akira Kitamura for the first ''Mega Man (video game), Mega Man'' game released in 1987, with artist Keiji Inafun ...

, also called Rock, from the ''Mega Man'' series *

Chuck Rock ''Chuck Rock'' is a 1991 slapstick side-scrolling platform video game developed and published by Core Design for the Atari ST and Amiga computers. A Commodore 64 port followed in 1992 and an Amiga CD32 version in 1994. The game was subsequent ...

, the playable character in the 1991 self-titled side-scrolling platform video game *

Sgt. Rock Sergeant Franklin John Rock, also known as simply Sgt. Rock, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. Sgt. Rock first appeared in '' Our Army at War'' #83 (June 1959), and was created by Robert Kanigher ...

, a DC Comics character

Music

Albums

* ''Rock'' (album), by Pleymo (2003) * '' Rock!!!!!'', by Violent Femmes (1995) * ''

R.O.C.K. R.O.C.K. is a 1986 hard rock/ heavy metal album by Finnish musician Kirka. A major departure from Kirka's typical easy listening albums, the album featured English language lyrics, written by Kassu Halonen, and was largely hard rock oriented. A ...

'', by Kirka (1986) * ''Rock'' (Casting Pearls EP) (2002) * ''Rocks'' (Aerosmith album) (1976) * ''Rocks'' (Harem Scarem album) (2001)

Songs

* "Rock", by Joe Morris from '' Singularity'' (2001) * "Rock", by Lemon Jelly from the single

Soft/Rock "Soft/Rock" is the debut single by English electronic music duo Lemon Jelly, which was released on 21 June 2001. The 7" single was released in two formats; the first was limited to 1,000 copies and released on blue vinyl, each coming in its own h ...

(2001) * "Rock" by Plies from the mixtape ''Ain't No Mixtape Bih 3'' (2017) * "Rock" by Groove Coverage from

21st Century The 21st century is the current century in the ''Anno Domini'' or Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001, and will end on 31 December 2100. It is the first century of the 3rd millennium. The rise of a ...

(2006) * "Rocks" (song), by Primal Scream (1994) * "Rocks", by Imagine Dragons from ''

Night Visions ''Night Visions'' is the debut studio album by American pop rock band Imagine Dragons. It was released on September 4, 2012, through Kidinakorner and Interscope Records. The album was primarily produced by the band themselves, as well as Engli ...

'' (2012)

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

* ''Rock'' (magazine), a former Yugoslav music magazine * ''Rock'', a novel by

Hal Ellson Harold "Hal" Ellson (1910 – October 31, 1994 in Brooklyn)
in ''

* ''Rocks'' (film), a 2019 British coming-of-age drama film * ''Rocks (Das Rad)'', a 2001 German animated short *

Rock Records The Rock Records Co., Ltd. () commonly known as Rock Records (), is a record label based in Taipei, Taiwan. Founded in the 1980s as the Rock Music Publishing (滾石有聲出版社; ) by Tuan Chung-tan and Tuan Chung-i, It is the largest record ...

, a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980 *

Uprock Uprock, or Rocking, as it was referred to, also known as Bronx Rock, Rock Dance, Brooklyn Rock, Burning or Freestyle is a competitive urban street dance, performed to the beats and rhythms of soul, rock and funk music, but was mostly danced ...

or rock, a form of street dance

Computing and technology

Rock (processor) Rock (or ROCK) was a Multithreading (computer architecture), multithreading, Multi-core processor, multicore, SPARC microprocessor under development at Sun Microsystems. Canceled in 2010, it was a separate project from the SPARC T-Series (CoolThre ...

, a microprocessor by Sun Microsystems *

Rocks Cluster Distribution Rocks Cluster Distribution (originally NPACI Rocks) is a Linux distribution intended for high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. It was started by National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure and the San Diego Supercompute ...

, Linux distribution for cluster computing

Food

Rock (confectionery) Rock (often known by its place of origin, for instance Blackpool rock or Brighton rock) is a type of hard stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery most usually flavoured with peppermint or spearmint. It is commonly sold at tourist (usually seasi ...

, a type of stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery *

Rock candy Rock candy or sugar candy, also called rock sugar or crystal sugar, is a type of confection composed of relatively large sugar crystals. In some parts of the world, local variations are called Misri, nabat or navat. This candy is formed b ...

, 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 Smoking, smoked. Crack offers a short, intense Euphoria (emotion), high to smokers. The ''Manual of Adolescent Sub ...

or rock *

Diamond Diamond is a Allotropes of carbon, solid form of the element carbon with its atoms arranged in a crystal structure called diamond cubic. Diamond is tasteless, odourless, strong, brittle solid, colourless in pure form, a poor conductor of e ...

, or rock *

Gemstone A gemstone (also called a fine gem, jewel, precious stone, semiprecious stone, or simply gem) is a piece of mineral crystal which, when cut or polished, is used to make jewellery, jewelry or other adornments. Certain Rock (geology), rocks (such ...

, 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 (baseball), National League (NL) National League West, West Division. Th ...

Major League Baseball team *

Toronto Rock The Toronto Rock are a Canadian professional box lacrosse team based in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area that competes in the National Lacrosse League (NLL). The team was the first Canadian franchise in the NLL. The Rock play their home ga ...

, of the National Lacrosse League

Sports that use rocks

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

, 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 Steinstossen (translated to 'stone throwing' in English) is the Swiss variant of stone put, of throwing a heavy stone overhead using both arms for the longest distance. Practiced among the alpine population since prehistoric times, it is recorded ...

, the Swiss variant of stone put, a competition in throwing a heavy stone or rock *

Stone put The stone put () is one of the main Scottish heavy athletic events at modern-day Highland games gatherings. While similar to the shot put, the stone put more frequently uses an ordinary stone or rock instead of a steel ball. The weight of the ...

, a competition in throwing a heavy stone or rock *

Stone skipping Stone skipping and stone skimming are the arts of throwing a flat Rock (geology), stone across water in such a way (usually Sidearm (baseball), sidearm) that it bounces off the surface. "Skipping" counts the number of bounces; "skimming" measur ...

(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 prison, maximum security federal prison on Alcatraz Island, 1.25 miles (2.01 km) off the coast of San Francisc ...

, nicknamed "The Rock" *

Criminal rock throwing Stone throwing or rock throwing, when it is directed at another person (called stone pelting in India), is often considered a form of criminal Battery (crime), battery. In certain political contexts, stone-throwing is considered a form of civi ...

Distaff A distaff (, , also called a rock"Rock." ''The Oxford English Dictionary''. 2nd ed. 1989.) is a tool used in spinning. It is designed to hold the unspun fibers, keeping them untangled and thus easing the spinning process. It is most commonly use ...

, a tool used in spinning *

Memorial Stadium (Indiana) Memorial Stadium is a stadium in Bloomington, Indiana, United States. It is primarily used for football, and has been the home of Indiana Hoosiers football since its opening in 1960. It is the 15th largest football stadium in the Big Ten Confer ...

, on the Indiana University campus, also known as The Rock *

ROCK1 ROCK1 is a protein serine/threonine kinase also known as rho-associated, coiled-coil-containing protein kinase 1. Other common names are ROKβ and P160ROCK. ROCK1 is a major downstream effector of the small GTPase RhoA and is a regulator of the ...

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

Rock (landform) An islet ( ) is generally a small island. Definitions vary, and are not precise, but some suggest that an islet is a very small, often unnamed, island with little or no vegetation to support human habitation. It may be made of rock, sand and/ ...

, a type of islet *

ROCKS (missile) ROCKS is an autonomous extended stand-off range air-to-surface missile developed by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems. Designed to engage high-value stationary and relocatable targets, the missile is particularly effective in GPS-denied environments ...

, an Israeli air-to-surface missile