Rook

Bird

• Rook (bird), a member of the passerine order of birds and the crow family

Games

• Rook (chess), a piece in the board game of chess
• Rook and pawn versus rook endgame, chess endgame
• Rook's graph, a graph that represents all legal moves of the rook fairy on a chessboard
• Rook (card game), a trick-taking game played with a deck of Rook playing cards, introduced in 1906 by Parker Brothers as an alternative to standard playing cards

People

• Alan Rook, edited the 1936 issue of New Oxford Poetry, he was one of the Cairo poets
• Jean Rook, British newspaper columnist
• Susan Rook, journalist and photographer best known for her years as a CNN anchor for PrimeNews

Other

• Rook (album), a 2008 album by Shearwater
• Rook (rocket), a British rocket, twenty five were launched between 1959 and 1972
• Rook (1874-1892) GWR no. 2176, one of 7 steam South Devon Railway 0-4-0 locomotives, Raven class
• Montes Rook, a ring-shaped mountain range that lies along the western limb of the Moon
• The Rook (comics), a time-traveling comic book character whose adventures were chronicled in various issues of Eerie magazine
• Rook (piercing), a piercing on the anti-helix of the ear
• The Edge Chronicles: Rook Barkwater Saga, a saga in 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, a 1940s era pulp adventure hero, is the title character in a series of novellas and short stories by author Barry Reese
• Rook (Transformers), a fictional Transformers character.

See also

• Confidence trick
• Deception
• Rooks (disambiguation page)
• Rookery, an animal breeding colony
• Rookery, a slang expression for a city slum
• Rookie, (mainly in North American usage), a person who is relatively new to an activity
• List of people by name: Roc-Ror#Roo - Ror, surnames

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