rook
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Rook or rooks may refer to:
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Games
- Rook (chess), a piece in chess that moves horizontally and vertically
- Rook (card game), a trick-taking card game
People, characters, individuals
- a rookie, a rook
- Russell Rook, Baron Rook (The Lord Rook; 21st century), British Anglican priest; elevated to Baron Rook lifepeerage in 2024
- Rook (surname)
- Jared Isaacman (callsign "Rook"), U.S. entrepreneur, e-finance executive, aerospace executive, private astronaut, administrator-designate of NASA
- Martin "Rook" O'Prey (1962–1991), Northern Ireland republican paramilitary
- Erik "Rook" Ortiz, member of the U.S. hiphop collective J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League
- Rook Valard (born 1974), U.S. musician
=Fictional entities=
- The Rook (comics), a comic book character from Eerie magazine
- Rook (G.I. Joe), a character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Rook, an Utrom in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles season 4
- Rook Bartley, a character in Robotech
- Rook Blonko, a character in Ben 10: Omniverse
Places
- Montes Rook, a mountain range on the Moon
- Rooks County, Kansas, USA
- Rook Mountain, a summit in Alaska, USA
- Qolla l-Bajda Battery or Rook, a discothèque in Żebbuġ, Gozo, Malta
- Rook Clift, South Harting, West Sussex, England, UK; an SSSI
- Rooks Bridge, Rooksbridge, East Brent, Somerset, England, UK; a former 17th-century bridge in Snighampton over the Mark Yeo stream
- Rook Street, Mere, Wiltshire, England, UK
=Fictional locations=
- Rook Islands, a fictional group of islands in the videogame Far Cry 3
Arts, entertainment, media
- Rook (album), 2008 album by Shearwater
- The Rook (novel), a 2011 supernatural thriller by Daniel O'Malley
- The Rook (TV series), a TV series on Starz
Transport and vehicular
- Rook (rocket), a British rocket launched between 1959 and 1972
- Rook, an 1874 South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotive
=Military=
- Sukhoi Su-25 "Rook" ({{langx|ru|link=no|Грач|Grach|Rook}}, the bird C. frugilegus) NATO reporting name "Frogfoot", a close air support aircraft
- {{ship|USS|Rooks|DD-804}}, a destroyer launched in 1944, a Cold War U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer
- {{ship|HMS|Rook|1806}}, a 19th-century British Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner
Zoology
- Rook (bird) (Corvus frugilegus), a bird of the corvid family
- a rookery, a rook
Other uses
- Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear
- Symbol of a fortification, fort, fortress, castle
See also
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- Rook's Textbook of Dermatology
- Senter-Rooks House, Humboldt, Tennessee, USA; an NRHP-listed building, a mayoral mansion
- Rooksbridge, East Brent, Somerset, England, UK; a hamlet where Rooks Bridge was
- Rooks Creek (disambiguation)
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- Rookery (disambiguation)
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