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Rolling lift
Rolling lift is a bascule bridge where the span rolls along a curved track rather than pivoting, as in the design patented by William Scherzer in 1893.
Rolling Loud (festival)
Rolling Loud is a hip hop festival founded in Miami, Florida, in 2015 by Tariq Cherif and Matt Zingler, billed as the world's largest hip-hop festival.
Rolling Loud: The Movie
Rolling Loud: The Movie (2026) is a Jeremy Garelick comedy starring Owen Wilson, Matt Rife, and Christine Ko, inspired by Garelick taking his 13-year-old son to the Rolling Loud festival; released October 2, 2026 by Ketchup Entertainment.
Rolling paper
Rolling paper, also called cigarette paper, is a thin, porous paper used to wrap cut tobacco for cigarettes and roll-your-own smoking, made from flax, hemp, or wood pulp.
Rolling pin
A rolling pin is a cylindrical kitchen tool for flattening dough into even sheets, in handled American and tapered French styles, made of wood, marble, or steel.
Rolling Ray
Rolling Ray, real name Juan "Raymond" Harper (1996-2025), was a Washington, D.C.-born influencer, rapper, and Zeus Network reality star known for "purrr" and "it's giving," SMA-related wheelchair use, and dying at 28 of natural causes.
Rolling resistance
Rolling resistance, also called rolling friction, is the force that opposes a body rolling on a surface, such as a tire on a road, expressed as the coefficient Crr.
Rolling shutter
Rolling shutter, also called the jello effect, is an image sensor readout method exposing pixel rows one after another, producing skew, wobble, and bending artifacts in fast-moving scenes.
Rolling stock
Rolling stock, also called rail vehicles, is the collective term for all vehicles used on a railway track, from locomotives and multiple units to hauled coaches, freight wagons, and service stock.
Rolling stock manufacturing industry
The rolling stock manufacturing industry builds railway vehicles like locomotives, carriages, and wagons, concentrated so the ten largest firms held over 70% of a EUR 54.7 billion market in 2017.
Rolling stock of Japan
The rolling stock of Japan comprises the locomotives, passenger vehicles, and freight wagons on the national network, run by Japanese National Railways until its 1987 privatization into seven JR companies.
Rolling stock of Network SouthEast
The rolling stock of Network SouthEast was the fleet of electric and diesel trains operated by the British Rail sector created in 1986 to run London commuter services.
Rolling stock of Serbian Railways
The rolling stock of Serbian Railways, Железнице Србије, is the fleet of locomotives, multiple units, coaches, and wagons split between Srbija Voz and Srbija Kargo since 2015.
Rolling stock of South Africa
Rolling stock of South Africa covers the locomotives, coaches, multiple units, and wagons serving Transnet, PRASA, and the Gautrain, shaped by the 1,067 mm Cape gauge.
Rolling stock of the Bluebell Railway
The rolling stock of the Bluebell Railway is the collection of preserved carriages, wagons, and multiple units of the Bluebell Railway, a heritage railway in Sussex running trains since 1960.
Rolling stock of the Watercress Line
The rolling stock of the Watercress Line is the fleet of steam locomotives, diesels, and Mark 1 carriages preserved on the Mid-Hants Railway, a heritage line in Hampshire.
Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone (also Rolling Stone Magazine) is the American monthly magazine of music, film, TV, and politics founded in San Francisco in 1967 by Jann Wenner and Ralph J. Gleason, now published by Penske Media after Wenner's 2017 sale.
Rolling Stone India (music)
Rolling Stone India is the Indian licensed edition of the American music magazine Rolling Stone, launched in Mumbai in February 2008 and a platformer of Indian independent music and desi hip hop.
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, also issued as "The Immortals," is a peer-voted ranking of rock-era artists by 55 musicians and executives, published 2004–2005 and updated in 2011, topped by the Beatles and Bob Dylan.
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Music Videos of All Time: July 30, 2021 ranked list marking MTV's 40th anniversary, topped by Beyoncé's Formation, ahead of Johnny Cash's Hurt and Madonna's Vogue, with Thriller omitted.
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time
Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Songwriters of All Time, an August 2015 ranked list topped by Bob Dylan, co-branded with Apple Music and criticized for being over 70% white, male-dominated, and skewed toward classic-rock-era writers.
Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Singers of All Time
Rolling Stone's 200 Greatest Singers of All Time (January 1, 2023) is the magazine's update of its 2008 list of 100, ranking Aretha Franklin first. Known for staff-compiled criteria, no opera, and the controversial exclusion of Celine Dion.
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time is a recurring ranked album list first published in November 2003, updated in 2012, remade in 2020 with 240 new entries, and lightly updated in December 2023, when Marvin Gaye's What's Going On remained number one.
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: music ranking first published 2004 (No. 1: Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone'), updated 2010, fully remade September 2021 via a 250-plus voter poll topped by Aretha Franklin's 'Respect', with 254 new entries.
Rolling the R's
Rolling the R's is the first novel of Filipino American writer R. Zamora Linmark, published in 1995, following fifth graders in 1970s Kalihi, Honolulu as they navigate immigrant identity and sexuality.
Rolling Thunder (film)
Rolling Thunder is a 1977 American revenge thriller, also released as Légitime Violence, directed by John Flynn and written by Paul Schrader and Heywood Gould; William Devane plays a returned Vietnam POW on a revenge mission with Tommy Lee Jones.
Rolling Thunder Revue
Rolling Thunder Revue, also called the Rolling Thunder tour, was Bob Dylan's 1975-76 traveling revue tour with Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Roger McGuinn and others, debuting Desire songs in small venues and later the subject of Scorsese's 2019 partly fictional Netflix film.
Rolling-element bearing
A rolling-element bearing, also called a rolling bearing, is a machine element that supports rotating shafts using balls or rollers between hardened raceways for low-friction motion.
Rollins Adams Emerson
Rollins Adams Emerson (1873–1947) was an American plant geneticist called the parent of maize genetics, who headed Cornell's plant breeding department from 1914 to 1942.
Rollins Band
The Rollins Band is an American rock group formed in 1987 by Henry Rollins. It is known for its blend of hard rock, metal, funk, and jazz.