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Rock argentino
Rock argentino, known locally as rock nacional, is Argentina's Spanish-language rock scene, running from the mid-1960s to the present and peaking in popularity in the 1980s.
Rock Around the Clock
"Rock Around the Clock" (also "(We're Gonna) Rock Around the Clock"), 1954 Bill Haley and His Comets recording written by Max Freedman and James Myers; first rock 'n' roll Number One pop hit in 1955 after Blackboard Jungle.
Rock art
Rock art, also called parietal art, is non-utilitarian human marking on natural rock: petroglyphs (carved), pictographs (painted), and geoglyphs (ground-level motifs like the Nazca Lines), dated by radiocarbon and U-series and conserved worldwide.
Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia
Rock Art in the Hail Region of Saudi Arabia, a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed 2015 (criteria i, iii), comprises Jabal Umm Sinman at Jubbah and Jabal al-Manjor/Raat at Shuwaymis, petroglyphs and inscriptions spanning almost 10,000 years.
Rock Art of Alta
Rock Art of Alta: prehistoric petroglyphs and paintings at the head of Alta Fjord, Arctic Norway, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1985; over 7,000 hunter-gatherer figures made c. 5300 BC to AD 100, dated by shoreline displacement.
Rock art of Matobo Hills
Rock art of Matobo Hills is Stone Age rock painting in granite shelters of the Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe, with over 3,000 recorded sites dating back 13,000 years.
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula
Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula, also called Levantine art, is a 1998 UNESCO serial World Heritage Site of 758 prehistoric painted shelters across six Spanish autonomous communities, the largest rock-art group in Europe, dated roughly c. 8000–3500 BC.
Rock avalanche
A rock avalanche is a very rapid downslope flow of fragmented rock from a disintegrating rockfall or rockslide, often exceeding 100 km/h over a million cubic meters.
Rock balancing
Rock balancing, also called stone stacking, is the art of stacking stones into sculptures without adhesives, using balance points, gravity, and friction. Covers cairn history, mechanics, competitive stacking, and environmental impact in parks.
Rock Band
Rock Band: Harmonix's music rhythm game franchise (2007, MTV Games) for guitar, bass, drums, and vocals; over 18 million units sold, $1 billion franchise, four main entries through Rock Band 4 (2015).
Rock Band (video game)
Rock Band, 2007 Harmonix/MTV Games rhythm game for Xbox 360, PS3, PS2; four-player guitar, bass, drums, vocals; $169.99 bundle; billion-dollar franchise; Rock Band 4 delisted October 5, 2025.
Rock Band 4
Rock Band 4 is a 2015 music rhythm game by Harmonix for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, in which players perform lead guitar, bass, drums, and vocals with instrument controllers.
Rock bolt
A rock bolt, also called a roof bolt, is a steel or composite rod anchored in drilled rock with a plate to reinforce tunnels, mines, slopes, and dams.
Rock Bridge High School
Rock Bridge High School (Rock Bridge Senior High School), a public grades 9-12 school in southern Columbia, Missouri, opened 1973, named for Rock Bridge State Park; Bruins, Kelly green and gold, about 2,056 students, ranked 44th of 367 Missouri high schools.
Rock candy
Rock candy, also called rock sugar (冰糖, 氷砂糖, Mishri), is crystallized sucrose grown as large crystals from a supersaturated sugar solution on strings or sticks over days to weeks, used as candy and sweetener.
Rock Carvings in Tanum (Sweden)
Rock Carvings in Tanum (Hällristningsområdet Tanum), a Swedish UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994 in northern Bohuslän, preserves over 600 Bronze Age granite rock-carving sites, c. 1700–500 BC, with ships, humans, animals, and cult scenes.
Rock climbing
Rock climbing, ascending steep rock faces for sport, separated from mountaineering in the 1880s Lake District; disciplines include bouldering, lead, and speed climbing, an Olympic sport since Tokyo 2020.
Rock colombiano
Rock colombiano is the rock music made in Colombia, a scene that broke into the national mainstream in the 1990s with Aterciopelados and 1280 Almas.
Rock County, Wisconsin, United States
Rock County, Wisconsin, a county created in 1836 from Milwaukee County, named for the Rock River; county seat Janesville. Population 166,472 (2025 estimate), 29-member Board of Supervisors, major agricultural economy.
Rock cycle
The rock cycle is the geologic model describing how igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks are created, altered, and destroyed by processes at Earth's surface and interior.
Rock desert
A rock desert is a desert surface dominated by bare rock or stones rather than sand, including flat hamada plateaus and gravelly reg plains, which cover nearly half of desert terrain.
Rock Dog (摇滚藏獒)
Rock Dog (摇滚藏獒) is a 2016 3D animated film adapted from rock singer Zheng Jun's comic, directed by Ash Brannon, about mastiff Bodi pursuing rock music; released in China July 2016 and the US February 2017, grossing $9.4 million in the US.
Rock dove
Rock dove (Columba livia), the wild cliff-nesting pigeon of Europe, North Africa, and Asia, ancestor of all domestic and feral pigeons; domesticated about 5,000 years ago, hunted by Neanderthals 67,000 years ago, IUCN Least Concern but declining through hybridization with feral pigeons.
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica
Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (UNESCO site 94, inscribed 1979, first Italian World Heritage site): prehistoric petroglyphs in Lombardy's Camonica valley, over 140,000 figures carved over 8,000 years on Permian sandstone, discovered in 1909 by Walther Laeng.
Rock en Ñ (Spain touring showcase)
Rock en Ñ was a transatlantic touring showcase for Spanish-language rock, promoted by Spain's SGAE, which debuted at Irving Plaza in New York in 2000 and ran annually through 2006.
Rock en Seine
Rock en Seine is a major French summer music festival held since 2003 at the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud near Paris, with up to 40,000 daily festivalgoers, 4 stages, and headliners such as The Cure, Nick Cave, and Tyler, The Creator.
Rock En Tu Idioma Sinfónico Ii
Rock En Tu Idioma Sinfónico II is a Mexican symphonic show, created in 2015 by Caifanes bassist Sabo Romo, reorchestrating 1980s and 1990s rock en español classics.
Rock flour
Rock flour, also called glacial flour or glacier milk (French farine glaciaire), is fine silt-size sediment produced by glaciers grinding bedrock, which turns meltwater streams milky white.
Rock Follies
Rock Follies: British ITV Thames Television musical drama (1976, sequel Rock Follies of '77) by Howard Schuman with music by Roxy Music's Andy Mackay, following the all-female band The Little Ladies; BAFTA-winning, number-one soundtrack album, 2023 stage revival.
Rock for People 2026
Rock for People 2026 was the 31st edition of the Czech rock festival at Park 360 in Hradec Králové, held 10–14 June 2026, headlined by Gorillaz and Iron Maiden.