Rook

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Rook or rooks may refer to:

Bird

• Rook (bird) (Corvus frugilegus), a member of the corvid family

Places

• Montes Rook, a mountain range on the Moon
• Rooks County, Kansas
• Rooks Creek, in Illinois
• Qolla l-Bajda Battery, commonly known as "Rook"

People

• Rook (surname)

Art, entertainment, and media

Comedy

• "Rook Restaurant", a comedy sketch by The Two Ronnies

Fictional entities

• The Rook (comics), comic book character from Eerie magazine
• Rook (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
• Rook (Transformers), a fictional Transformers character
• Rook Bartley of the anime series Genesis Climber Mospeada and Robotech
• Rook Blonko, a fictional character in the Ben 10 universe
• Jameson Rook, character from the Castle TV show's spinoff book series from Heat Wave
• The Rook, the title character in a 1940s series of stories by Barry Reese
• Rook, an Utrom in season 4 of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Bodhi Rook, a former Imperial pilot in the film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Games

• Rook (card game), a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards
• Rook (chess), a piece in the board game of chess

Literature

• The Rook (novel), a 2011 supernatural thriller by Daniel O'Malley

Music

Groups

• The Dirty Rooks, American rock band

Albums

• Rook (album), 2008 album by Shearwater

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")

Transportation

• 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 (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear

See also

• Rookery (slum)
• Rookery
• Rookie