Rocinante in various uses !

* The name John Steinbeck gives to the modified camper truck in which he travelled the country in his book Travels With Charley
* The interstellar vessel piloted into a black hole by a man who has fallen for his own misguided interest in it in the two part mini-saga Cygnus X-1 by Canadian progressive rock band Rush
* Julia de Burgos's description of herself in her 1938 poem 'A Julia de Burgos': "que yo soy Rocinante corriendo desbocado" (trans. by Grace Schulman: "I am Rocinante, bolting free, wildly").
* Giannina Braschi's horses are named Rocinante and Clarin in the bilingual novel "Yo-Yo Boing!"
* The ship flown by Cervantes Quinn, a colorful freelance trader, in "Harbinger," the first volume of the Star Trek Vanguard novel series.
* The name "Rocinante" is also the name given to a captured alien ship in Marathon 2: Durandal, and its fan-made sequel Marathon: Rubicon.
* Rocinante is the name of a horse in the Inside Track Betting in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
* Rocinante is the name of a defunct publication from Chile.
* An airplane that crashed while smuggling diamonds in the TV comedy series Psych on the USA Network