Rook or rooks may refer to:

Games

Rook (chess) The rook (; ♖, ♜) is a piece in the game of chess. It may move any number of squares horizontally or vertically without jumping, and it may an enemy piece on its path; it may participate in castling. Each player starts the game with two ro ...

, a piece in chess that moves horizontally and vertically *

Rook (card game) Rook is a trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards. Sometimes referred to as Christian cards or missionary cards, Rook playing cards were introduced by Parker Brothers in 1906 to provide an alternative to standard playi ...

, a trick-taking card game

People, characters, individuals

rookie A rookie is a person new to an occupation, profession, or hobby. In sports, a ''rookie'' is a professional athlete in their first season (or year). In contrast with a veteran who has experience, a rookie is typically considered needing more tra ...

, a rook * Russell Rook, Baron Rook (The Lord Rook; 21st century), British Anglican priest; elevated to Baron Rook lifepeerage in 2024 *

Rook (surname) Rook is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Black Dresses, Ada Rook, Canadian musician *Alan Rook (1909-1990), editor of the 1936 issue of ''New Oxford Poetry'', one of the Cairo poets *Jean Rook (1931–1991), British newspaper co ...

Jared Isaacman Jared Taylor Isaacman (born February 11, 1983) is an American billionaire entrepreneur, pilot, and commercial astronaut. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of Shift4, Shift4 Payments, a payment processor, and the founder of Draken Internati ...

(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 ''Robotech'' is the American adaptation of three Japanese animated series: ''The Super Dimension Fortress Macross'', ''The Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross'', and ''Genesis Climber MOSPEADA'', as a Robotech (TV series), single TV series. Th ...

, a character in ''Robotech'' *Rook Blonko, a character in '' Ben 10: Omniverse''

Places

* Montes Rook, a mountain range on the Moon *

Rooks County, Kansas Rooks County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat is Stockton, and its largest city is Plainville. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 4,919. The county was named for John Rooks, a private in Compa ...

, USA * Rook Mountain, a summit in Alaska, USA *

Qolla l-Bajda Battery Qolla l-Bajda Battery ( or ) is an artillery battery in Żebbuġ, Gozo, Malta. It was built by the Order of Saint John in 1715 and 1716 as one of a series of coastal fortifications around the coasts of the Maltese Islands. It retained its origin ...

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" (, the bird ''C. frugilegus'') NATO reporting name "Frogfoot", a close air support aircraft *, a destroyer launched in 1944, a Cold War U.S. Navy Fletcher-class destroyer *, a 19th-century British Royal Navy Cuckoo-class schooner

Zoology

Rook (bird) The rook (''Corvus frugilegus'') is a member of the family Corvidae in the passerine order of birds. It is found in the Palearctic, its range extending from Scandinavia and western Europe to eastern Siberia. It is a large, gregarious, black-fea ...

(''Corvus frugilegus''), a bird of the corvid family *a

rookery A rookery is a colony of breeding rooks, and more broadly a colony of several types of breeding animals, generally gregarious birds. Coming from the nesting habits of rooks, the term is used for corvids and the breeding grounds of colony-fo ...

, a rook

Other uses

* Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear *Symbol of a

fortification A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Lati ...

, fort, fortress, castle