ROA

ROA may refer to:

Sports and arts

 * Racehorse Owners Association, a British horse racing organisation
 * Refugee Olympics Athletes, a selection of refugees who will be competing under the Olympic flag at the 2016 Summer Olympics
 * Revolt On Antares, a science-fiction themed microgame designed by Tom Moldvay and produced by TSR in 1981
 * Rules of Acquisition, in the fictional Star Trek universe, a set of sacred guidelines intended to ensure the profitability of businesses owned by members of the ultra-capitalist alien race known as the Ferengi
 * X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, a video/computer game
 * Rivals of Aether, a 2017 fighting game

People

 * ROA (artist) (born c. 1975), pseudonym of a Belgian graffiti artist known for his large realistic depictions of animals in black-and-white
 * ROA Crewe-Milnes (1858–1945), a British statesman and writer

Government

 * ROA Time, the official time of Spain established by The Royal Institute and Observatory of the Spanish Navy in San Fernando, Cádiz
 * Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, United Kingdom act that enables some criminal convictions to be ignored after a rehabilitation period

Military

 * Reserve Officers Association, a professional association of officers, former officers, and spouses of all the uniformed services of the United States
 * Russian Liberation Army (РОА in Cyrillic letters, or ROA), a group of predominantly Russian forces subordinated to the Nazi German high command during World War II

Finance

 * Return on assets, a financial metric
 * Real Options Analysis, option valuation techniques for capital budgeting decisions

Science and medicine

 * Raman optical activity, a vibrational spectroscopic technique
 * Right occipito-anterior, a cephalic vertex presentation in childbirth where the fetus is in a longitudinal lie and the head enters the pelvis first
 * Roaccutane, a medication used mostly for cystic acne and in chemotherapy
 * Route of administration, in pharmacology and toxicology, the path by which a drug, fluid, poison, or other substance is taken into the body
 * Route Origin Authorization (Internet routing), a cryptographically signed entry in IP registry databases that specifies the authorized source AS of a certain network
 * Rutgers Optimality Archive, an archive of work in Optimality Theory managed by Eric Bakovic

Schools

 * Retford Oaks Academy, a secondary school with academy status in the market town of Retford, Nottinghamshire, England
 * River Oaks Academy, a private kindergarten through 12th grade school in the Westchase district of Houston, Texas

Other uses

 * Peugeot ROA, an Iranian made car
 * Roanoke-Blacksburg Regional Airport in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, IATA code
 * Rear Occupant Alert, a warning when a car door is closed from the outside with people still inside
 * Resource-oriented architecture, a style of software architecture and programming paradigm for designing and developing software
 * Reformed Armenian Orthography, a spelling reform of the Armenian alphabet in 1922–1924
 * Ruger Old Army, a black-powder percussion revolver introduced in 1972 by the Sturm, Ruger company
 * Republic of Artsakh, unrecognized state in Southern Caucasus
 * Route Origination Authorization, proof of authorization to announce a route for an IP prefix