Rook Explained

Rook or rooks may refer to:

Animals

• Rook (bird) (Corvus frugilegus), a bird of the corvid family

Games

• Rook (chess), a piece in chess that moves horizontally and vertically
• Rook (card game), a trick-taking card game

Military

• Sukhoi Su-25 or Rook, a close air support aircraft
• USS Rooks (DD-804), a destroyer launched in 1944

Places

• Montes Rook, a mountain range on the Moon
• Rooks County, Kansas
• Rook Mountain, a summit in Alaska

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 Blonko, a character in

Other uses

• 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
• Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear
• Rook (rocket), a British rocket launched between 1959 and 1972
• Rook (surname)
• Qolla l-Bajda Battery or Rook, a discothèque in Żebbuġ, Gozo, Malta
• Rook, an 1874 South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotive

See also

• Rooke
• Rookery (disambiguation)
• Rookie (disambiguation)