# Rock

Rock most often refers to:
* Rock (geology), a naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals or mineraloids
* Rock music, a genre of popular music
Rock or Rocks may also refer to:

## Places
### United Kingdom

* Rock, Caerphilly, a location in Wales
* Rock, Cornwall, a village in England
* Rock, County Tyrone, a village in Northern Ireland
* Rock, Devon, a location in England
* Rock, Neath Port Talbot, a location in Wales
* Rock, Northumberland, a village in England
* Rock, Somerset, a location in England
* 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, a town in central Wisconsin

### Elsewhere

* Corregidor, an island in the Philippines also known as "The Rock"
* Jamaica, an island in the Caribbean is locally referred to as the "Rock"
* Niue, 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 Creek (disambiguation)
* Rock Island (disambiguation)
* Rock Lake (disambiguation)
* Rock River (disambiguation)
* Rock Mountain (disambiguation)
* Rock Township (disambiguation)

## 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 while as a member of the Blade Runners tag team.
* The Rock, (born Dwayne Johnson in 1972), American actor and wrestler

## Arts, entertainment, and media
### Fictional characters

* Rock (comics), a character in the DC Comics universe
* Rock (manga), 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), by Pleymo (2003)
* Rock!!!!!, by Violent Femmes (1995)
* R.O.C.K., 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 (2001)
* "Rock" by Plies from the mixtape Ain't No Mixtape Bih 3 (2017)
* "Rock" by Groove Coverage from 21st Century (2006)
* "Rocks" (song), by Primal Scream (1994)
* "Rocks", by Imagine Dragons from Night Visions (2012)

### 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), 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 or rock
* Diamond, or rock
* Gemstone, or rock

## Sports
### Teams and leagues

* "Rocks", a nickname of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team
* Toronto Rock, of the National Lacrosse League

### Sports that use rocks

* Curling, 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, 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), a type of islet