Rock Explained
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
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
Songs
Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media
Computing and technology
Food
Slang
Sports
Teams and leagues
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
Other uses
See also
