Rock facts for kids

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

People

• The Rock, (born Dwayne Johnson in 1972), American actor and wrestler

Food

• Rock (confectionery), a type of stick-shaped boiled sugar confectionery
• Rock candy, also known as sugar candy or rock sugar
• Rock salmon, often referred to as rock

Sports

Teams and leagues

• "Rocks", a nickname of the Colorado Rockies Major League Baseball team
• Toronto Rock, of the National Lacrosse League

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

See also

In Spanish: Rock (desambiguación) para niños