Rook

Rook or rooks may refer to:

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" (Russian: Грач, romanized: Grach, lit. 'Rook', the bird C. frugilegus) NATO reporting name "Frogfoot", a close air support aircraft
• USS Rooks (DD-804), a destroyer launched in 1944, a Cold War U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer
• 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

• 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)
• All pages with titles beginning with ROOK
• All pages with titles beginning with Rook
• All pages with titles containing rooks
• All pages with titles containing rook
• Rooke
• Rookery (disambiguation)
• Rookie (disambiguation)
• Rok (disambiguation)