Rock
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Rock usually refers to:
- Rock (geology), naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloid
- Rock music, form of popular music, that normally includes guitar riffs
It can also refer to:
Geology[edit source | edit]
- Rock (geology), naturally occurring solid aggregate of minerals and/or mineraloids
- Rock salt or halite, mineral form of sodium chloride
People[edit source | edit]
Main article: Rock (name)
- Dwayne Johnson (born 1972), stage name "The Rock", actor and professional wrestler
- Rock (rapper), American rapper
- Rock or Roch (c. 1348-c. 1379), Roman Catholic saint
Fictional characters[edit source | edit]
- Rock (comics), a fictional character in the DC Comics universe
- Rock (manga character), a recurrent major character in most of Osamu Tezuka's manga series
- Robert Orin Charles Kilroy (ROCK), from the Styx rock opera Kilroy was here - see Mr. Roboto
Music[edit source | edit]
- Rock music, form of popular music
- Rocks (album), by Aerosmith
- Rocks (Harem Scarem album), 2001
- "The Rock", instrumental song by The Who from Quadrophenia
- "Rocks" (song), by Primal Scream
- "Rock", one of the tracks on "Soft/Rock", a single by Lemon Jelly
- Rock (Casting Pearls EP), by Casting Pearls
- The Rock (Rachmaninoff), an orchestral composition
- The Rock (The Frankie Miller Band album), the third album from The Frankie Miller Band
- The Rock (John Entwistle album), the sixth solo album by John Entwistle, bassist for The Who
- The Rock (Tracy Lawrence album), the tenth studio album by American country music artist Tracy Lawrence
- The Rocks (band), a former UK indie rock band
- "The Rock", a song by Atomic Rooster from In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
Entertainment[edit source | edit]
- Another term for uprock, a form of street dance
- The Rock (film), 1996 film starring Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage directed by Michael Bay
- The Rock (play), T.S. Eliot's 1934 pageant play
- Rock (magazine), Yugoslav music magazine
Places[edit source | edit]
Australia[edit source | edit]
- The Rocks, Sydney, a locality in Sydney, Australia
- The Rock, New South Wales, a town in southern New South Wales
Canada[edit source | edit]
- The Rocks or Hopewell Rocks, New Brunswick, a coastal formation
- Newfoundland (island), Canada
United Kingdom[edit source | edit]
- Rock, Cornwall, village in Cornwall, England
- Rock, Northumberland, village in Northumberland, England
- Rock, West Sussex
- Rock, Worcestershire, village in Worcestershire, England
- Lewis, an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland
- Rock, County Tyrone, a small village in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
United States[edit source | edit]
- The Rock or Alcatraz Island, small island in San Francisco Bay, California, United States
- The Rock, Georgia
- The Rock (Northwestern University), a landmark at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
- Rock Island, Illinois, county seat of Rock Island County, Illinois, United States
- Memorial Stadium (Indiana), on the Indiana University campus
- Rock, Kansas, unincorporated community in Cowley County, Kansas, United States
- The Rock (Michigan State University), a boulder on the campus of Michigan State University
- Rock Township, Benson County, North Dakota, civil township in United States
- The Rocks or McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, a borough
- Rock, West Virginia, a community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States
- Rock County, Wisconsin, county in United States
- Rock, Rock County, Wisconsin, town in Rock County, Wisconsin, United States
- Rock, Wood County, Wisconsin, town in Wood County, Wisconsin, United States
Other Places[edit source | edit]
- The Rock of Gibraltar, British overseas territory near the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula (Spain)
- Corregidor, an island in the Philippines
- Niue, an island near Tonga
- Rockall, a islet in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the United Kingdom
- Tutuila, the main island of American Samoa
- Foundation Stone, the rock inside Jerusalem's Dome of the Rock
- Newark's Prudential Center, nicknamed "The Rock" due to Prudential Financial's logo
Food[edit source | edit]
- Rock candy, type of confectionery composed of large sugar crystals
- Rock (confectionery), type of stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery
- Edinburgh rock, stick-shaped Scottish confection, notably different from ordinary rock
- Plymouth Rock (chicken), breed of chicken
- Rock salmon, often referred to as Rock; sold in UK fish and chip shops
- Rock salt, the mineral form of sodium chloride
Computers[edit source | edit]
- Rock (processor), microprocessor by Sun Microsystems
- Rocks Cluster Distribution, Linux distribution for cluster computing
- Rocks (PHP)
Sports[edit source | edit]
For individual athletes, see Rock (name).
- Rock, used in the sport of Curling
- The Rock (rugby team) or Atlantic Rock, a rugby union team based in St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
- The Rocks or the Scottish Rocks, a basketball team
- "The Rock," nickname of the athletic teams of Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania
- "Rock", a slang term for a basketball and football
- "The Rock," a nickname for the Knute Rockne Memorial athletic facility on the University of Notre Dame
- "Rocks" is a nickname of the Colorado Rockies
- St. Cloud Rox (disambiguation), the name of various baseball teams in St. Cloud, Minnesota
- The Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League
Other uses[edit source | edit]
- ROCK1, human gene
- Rock or islet, small island
- Rock, or distaff, a tool used in spinning
- Rock, slang term for crack cocaine
- Enlarged Jewellery, such as the gemstones on an engagement ring
- The Rock, a headland occupied by the original fortified town of Monaco, today's Monaco-Ville
- The Rock or Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, former Class I railroad in the United States
- The Rocks, Inc., U.S. military officers' organization
- The Rock (Radio station), a New Zealand rock music radio station
- Mangrove red snapper, sometimes called rock salmon
See also[edit source | edit]
- All pages beginning with "Rock"
- All pages with titles containing "Rock"
- Rock of Ages (disambiguation)
- Rock and roll (disambiguation)
- Rockman or Mega Man
- Rok (disambiguation)
- ROC (disambiguation)
- Roque (disambiguation)
- Rockfish (disambiguation)
- Rock River (disambiguation)
- David Rock (disambiguation)
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