Rook
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Rook or rooks may refer to:
Bird
- Rook (bird) (Corvus frugilegus), a member of the crow family
Games
- Rook (chess) or castle, a piece in the board game of chess
- Rook (card game), a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards
Literature
- The Rook, A 2011 supernatural thriller by Daniel O'Malley
Places
- Montes Rook, a mountain range on the Moon
- Rooks County, Kansas
- Rooks Creek, Illinois
Culture
- Rook (album), 2008 album by Shearwater
- The Dirty Rooks, American rock band
- The Rook, the title character in a 1940s series of stories by Barry Reese
- Rook Bartley of the anime series Genesis Climber Mospeada and Robotech
- Rook (Transformers), a fictional Transformers character
- Rook (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Rook (comics), comic book character from Eerie magazine
- Rook Blonko, a fictional character in the Ben 10 universe
- Rook Restaurant, a comedy sketch by The Two Ronnies
- Jameson Rook, character from the Castle TV show's spinoff book series.
Technology
- Rook (rocket), a British rocket launched between 1959 and 1972
- "Rook", is a Russian nickname for the Sukhoi Su-25 close air support aircraft (NATO reporting name: "Frogfoot")
- USS Rooks (DD-804) (1944–1962), destroyer, World War II and Korea
- Rook (1874–1892), GWR no. 2176, one of seven steam South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotives, Raven class
Other uses
- Rook (surname)
- Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear