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[rook] 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" ( [ru] , the bird _C. frugilegus_ ) NATO reporting name "Frogfoot", a close air support aircraft - [USS] , a destroyer launched in 1944, a Cold War U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer - [HMS] , 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] [r-ook]
- _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) - [ROOK] - [Rook] - [rooks] - [rook] - Rooke - Rookery (disambiguation) - Rookie (disambiguation) - Rok (disambiguation) [disambiguation]