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Rocky Fielding
Rocky Fielding (Michael Fielding, born 1987, Liverpool) is an English boxer, WBA regular super middleweight champion 2018, who beat Tyron Zeuge, lost to Canelo Alvarez at MSG, and held British and Commonwealth titles.
Rocky Flats Plant
The Rocky Flats Plant was a US nuclear weapons production facility near Denver, Colorado, that fabricated plutonium pits for the nuclear stockpile from 1952 until 1989.
Rocky Flintoff
Rocky Flintoff (born 2008) is an English cricketer, son of Andrew Flintoff, playing for Lancashire. Youngest-ever Lancashire debutant and youngest centurion for England Under-19s and England Lions.
Rocky Graziano
Rocky Graziano (Thomas Rocco Barbella, 1922-1990), American middleweight boxing champion who won the 1947 title by knocking out Tony Zale, lost the trilogy's other two fights, and later starred in the film story Somebody Up There Likes Me.
Rocky Handsome (रॉकी हैंडसम)
Rocky Handsome (रॉकी हैंडसम) is a 2016 Hindi action thriller directed by Nishikant Kamat, starring John Abraham, an official adaptation of the Korean film The Man from Nowhere.
Rocky II
Rocky II (1979), the Rocky sequel written and directed by Sylvester Stallone, in which Rocky Balboa rematches Apollo Creed after Creed's split-decision win; released 15 June 1979, grossed $85,182,160 domestically.
Rocky III
Rocky III is a 1982 American sports drama directed, written by, and starring Sylvester Stallone, in which Rocky Balboa loses his title to Clubber Lang.
Rocky IV
Rocky IV (1985), Sylvester Stallone's fourth Rocky film, pits Rocky Balboa against Soviet boxer Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) after Apollo Creed's ring death; the franchise's highest-grossing entry, re-edited in 2021 as Rocky vs. Drago.
Rocky Johnson
Rocky Johnson (Wayde Douglas Bowles, 1944-2020), Canadian WWE Hall of Fame wrestler, 'Soul Man'; with Tony Atlas first African-American WWF World Tag Team Champion; father and trainer of The Rock.
Rocky Marciano
Rocky Marciano (Rocco Francis Marchegiano, 1923-1969), American heavyweight boxing champion 1952-1956, the only heavyweight champion to retire undefeated at 49-0 with 43 knockouts; died in an Iowa plane crash.
Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Rocky Mount is a city in eastern North Carolina, straddling the fall line of the Tar River on the Nash and Edgecombe county line, about 60 miles east of Raleigh.
Rocky Mountain Laboratories
Rocky Mountain Laboratories (RML) is a National Institutes of Health research campus in Hamilton, Montana, studying infectious microbes that cause disease in humans and animals.
Rocky Mountain locust
Rocky Mountain locust (Melanoplus spretus), extinct North American swarming grasshopper of the Rocky Mountain river valleys; its 1874-1875 plagues covered 198,000 square miles with 12.5 trillion insects before habitat destruction drove it extinct by 1902.
Rocky Mountain National Park
Rocky Mountain National Park, established January 26, 1915 in north-central Colorado, spans 415 square miles from 7,840 to 14,259 feet, with alpine tundra, Trail Ridge Road, reintroduced elk, and a timed entry reservation system.
Rocky Mountain oysters
Rocky Mountain oysters, also called prairie oysters or calf fries (French animelles), are breaded, deep-fried bull or calf testicles, a Western North American ranching dish, not seafood, served with dipping sauce and celebrated at testicle festivals.
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF), also called Brazilian spotted fever, is a tick-borne Rickettsia rickettsii infection causing fever, headache, and rash; doxycycline within 5 days is lifesaving.
Rocky Mountains
Rocky Mountains (the Rockies): North America's largest mountain system, over 100 named ranges running about 4,800 km from New Mexico to the Bering Sea, formed mainly by the Laramide orogeny about 70 million years ago.
Rocky Raccoon
"Rocky Raccoon" is a comic folk-rock song by the Beatles, written mainly by Paul McCartney in India in 1968 and released on their self-titled double album, the White Album.
Rocky road (ice cream)
Rocky road ice cream: American flavor of chocolate ice cream with marshmallows and nuts (almonds standard, walnuts original), dated to 1929 Oakland with disputed Dreyer's versus Fentons origin claims; ninth most popular US flavor.
Rocky Romero
Rocky Romero (ロッキー・ロメロ), real name John R. Rivera, is a Cuban-American professional wrestler and producer for NJPW, AEW, ROH, and CMLL; an eight-time IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Champion, former Black Tiger, and NJPW foreign-talent liaison.
Rocky Steps
Rocky Steps: the 72 steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, famous from the 1976 film Rocky's training run; about 4 million annual visitors; original Rocky statue moved permanently to the top in September 2026, with a Joe Frazier statue at the base.
Rocky the Flying Squirrel
Rocky the Flying Squirrel (Rocket J. Squirrel) is the Jay Ward cartoon flying squirrel, partner of Bullwinkle J. Moose, voiced by June Foray, starring in Rocky and His Friends (1959) and The Bullwinkle Show (1961-64), 326 episodes.
Rocky Top
Rocky Top is a 1967 bluegrass song by Felice and Boudleaux Bryant, first recorded by the Osborne Brothers, an official Tennessee state song since 1982, and the University of Tennessee Volunteers' unofficial fight song.
Rocky V
Rocky V is a 1990 American sports drama film, the fifth in the Rocky series, directed by John G. Avildsen and written by and starring Sylvester Stallone.
ROCm
ROCm (Radeon Open Compute) is AMD's open-source GPU computing platform for AI and high-performance computing, supporting Instinct accelerators and Radeon cards on Linux and Windows since 2016.
Roco Kingdom (洛克王国)
Roco Kingdom (洛克王国) is Tencent's Chinese children's game franchise: a 2010 Flash browser community game with 350 million registered users, expanded into anime and films, and rebooted as the 2026 open-world creature-collecting RPG Roco Kingdom: World.
Rococo
Rococo, also known as the Louis XV style or style rocaille, is an ornamental style of art, decoration, and architecture that emerged in France in the 1720s and dominated Europe until the 1770s.
Rococo architecture
Rococo architecture, also called style rocaille, is an early-to-mid 18th-century French-origin style of light, asymmetrical S- and C-curve ornament, pastel and gilded interiors, and intimate salons, evolving from late Baroque and later displaced by Neoclassicism.
Rococo in Minas Gerais
Rococo in Minas Gerais (rococó mineiro) is the regional variant of the Rococo style that developed in the Brazilian province of Minas Gerais in the late 18th century.
Rococo interiors
Rococo interiors are the eighteenth-century room ensembles of Louis XV's France, where panelling, mirrors, furniture, and painting form one light-colored, asymmetric, curvilinear whole, exemplified by the hôtel de Soubise.