Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 2020 (2020), No. 13, pp. 1-25. Title: Orlicz estimates for general parabolic obstacle problems with p(t,x)-growth in Reifenberg domains Authors: Hong Tian (Tianjin Univ. of Technology, Tianjin, China) Shenzhou Zheng (Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing, China) Abstract: This article shows a global gradient estimate in the framework of Orlicz spaces for general parabolic obstacle problems with p(t,x)-Laplacian in a bounded rough domain. It is assumed that the variable exponent p(t,x) satisfies a strong log-Holder continuity, that the associated nonlinearity is measurable in the time variable and have small BMO semi-norms in the space variables, and that the boundary of the domain has Reifenberg flatness. Submitted August 21, 2019. Published January 27, 2020. Math Subject Classifications: 35B65, 35K86, 46E30. Key Words: Parabolic obstacle problems; discontinuous nonlinearities; p(t,x)-growth; Orlicz spaces; Reifenberg flat domains.