# ROA

ROA may refer to:

## Sports and arts

* Racehorse Owners Association, 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, a 2017 fighting game

## People

* ROA (artist) (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, 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, United Kingdom act that enables some criminal convictions to be ignored after a rehabilitation period

## Military

* Reserve Officers Association, a professional association of officers, former officers, and spouses of all the uniformed services of the United States
* Russian Liberation Army (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, a financial metric
* Real Options Analysis, option valuation techniques for capital budgeting decisions

## Science and medicine

* Raman optical activity, 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, 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, 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, a warning when a car door is closed from the outside with people still inside
* Resource-oriented architecture, a style of software architecture and programming paradigm for designing and developing software
* Reformed Armenian Orthography, a spelling reform of the Armenian alphabet in 1922–1924
* Ruger Old Army, a black-powder percussion revolver introduced in 1972 by the Sturm, Ruger company
* Republic of Artsakh, unrecognized state in Southern Caucasus
* Route Origination Authorization, proof of authorization to announce a route for an IP prefix