Cocking may refer to:
- Cocking, The sport of cockfighting
- Robert Cocking (1776–1837), English inventor
- Samuel Cocking (1842–1914), British trader
- Cocking, West Sussex, village and civil parish in the Chichester district of West Sussex, England
- Cocking-cloth, device for catching pheasants
- Cocking handle, firearm device
- Cocking affair, controversy in Georgia, USA in 1941