Rook

Rook may refer to:

Bird

• Rook (bird), a member of the crow family

Games

• Rook (chess) or castle, a piece in the board game of chess
  • Rook's graph, a graph of legal moves for the rook chess piece
• Rook (card game)

People

• Alan Rook, editor of New Oxford Poetry, one of the Cairo poets
• Jean Rook, British newspaper columnist
• Susan Rook, journalist and photographer

Places

• Montes Rook, a mountain range on the Moon

Culture

• Rook (album), a 2008 album by Shearwater
• The Edge Chronicles: Rook Barkwater Saga, from The Edge Chronicles by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
  • Rook Barkwater, a fictional character in the children's book series The Edge Chronicles
• The Rook, the title character in a 1940s series of stories by Barry Reese
• Rook (Transformers), a fictional Transformers character
• Rook Castle, a character in the Battle Arena Toshinden game series
• The Rook (comics), a comic book character from Eerie magazine

War

• Rook (rocket), a British rocket launched between 1959 and 1972
• "Rook" is a Russian nickaname for Sukhoi Su-25 jet aircraft

Other

• Rook (1874-1892) GWR no. 2176, one of 7 steam South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotives, Raven class
• Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear

See also

• Rooks (disambiguation page)
• Rookery
• Rookery (slum)
• Rookie