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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, Illinois
- Qolla l-Bajda Battery, commonly known as "Rook"
People
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
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
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