Cork facts for kids

Cork or CORK may refer to:

Materials

• Cork (material), an impermeable buoyant plant product
  • Cork (plug), a cylindrical or conical object used to seal a container
    • Wine cork

Places

Ireland

• Cork (city)
  • Metropolitan Cork, also known as Greater Cork
  • Cork Airport
• County Cork

Historical parliamentary constituencies

• Cork City (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
• County Cork (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
• Cork City (UK Parliament constituency)
• County Cork (UK Parliament constituency)

United States

• Cork, Georgia
• Cork, Kentucky

Organisations

• Cork GAA, responsible for Gaelic games in County Cork
• Ye Antient Order of Noble Corks, a masonic order, also known as "The Cork"
• Cork City F.C., a football club
• Cork City W.F.C., a women's football club

Other uses

• A particular kind of trick in snowboarding and skiing. See List of snowboard tricks.
• Cork (surname)
• Cork City (barony)
• Cork encoding, a digital data format
• Cork taint, a wine fault
• Canadian Olympic-training Regatta, Kingston, a sailing regatta
• Cork (band), a 1990s rock duo/supergroup
• Cork (film), a Spanish drama