Rock

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Rock most often refers to:

Rock or Rocks may also refer to:

Places

United Kingdom

United States

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