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Racket (crime) Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. Originally and of ...
, a systematised element of organized crime **
Protection racket A protection racket is a type of racket and a scheme of organized crime perpetrated by a potentially hazardous organized crime group that generally guarantees protection outside the sanction of the law to another entity or individual from viol ...
, a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law *
Racket (sports equipment) A racket, or racquet, is a sports implement used for striking a ball or shuttlecock in games such as squash, tennis, racquetball, badminton and padel. In the strictest sense a racket consists of a handled frame with an open hoop across which a n ...
, a piece of equipment used to play tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and other racket sports **
Rackets (sport) Rackets or racquets is an indoor racket sport played in the United Kingdom, United States, and Canada. The sport is infrequently called "hard rackets", to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (also called "squash rackets"). Hist ...
, a particular sports discipline related to squash played indoors in the United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, United States, and Canada. *
Racket (programming language) Racket is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language and a multi-platform distribution that includes the Racket language, compiler, large standard library, IDE, development tools, and a set of additional languages including Typed Ra ...
, a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language based on the Scheme dialect of Lisp *
Racket, West Virginia Racket is an unincorporated community in Gilmer and Ritchie counties, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American ...
, an unincorporated community in Gilmer and Ritchie counties * ''The Racket (1951 film), a black & white film noir starring Robert Mitchum * ''Racket'' (film), a 1997 film with
Michele Placido Michele Placido (; born 19 May 1946) is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. He began his career on stage, and first gained mainstream attention through a series of roles in films directed by the likes of Mario Monicelli and Marco ...
, Tanya Roberts and Franco Interlenghi * ''Racket'' (album), a 2007 album by Whitehouse *
Racket (Minnesota) The Racket is a writer-owned, reader-funded website founded in 2021 by a group of former City Pages editors: Jessica Armbruster, Jay Boller, Em Cassel, and Keith Harris. Racket focuses on local news, politics, music, arts, culture, food and drink, ...
, an alternative news site in Minnesota *
The Racket (disambiguation) The Racket may refer to: Film, television and theatre * ''The Racket'' (play), a 1927 Broadway crime play by Bartlett Cormack * ''The Racket'' (1928 film), an American adaptation of the play, directed by Lewis Milestone * ''The Racket'' (1951 film) ...


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Rackett The rackett, raggett, cervelas, or sausage bassoon is a Renaissance-era double reed wind instrument, introduced late in the sixteenth century and already superseded by bassoons at the end of the seventeenth century. Description There are fou ...
, a Renaissance woodwind instrument *
Radne Raket 120 The Radne Raket 120 ( en, Rocket) is a lightweight single cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine used for powered hang gliders, paramotors and ultralight aircraft that is built by Radne Motor AB of Haninge, Sweden.Bayerl, Robby; Martin Berkemeie ...
, a lightweight single cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine {{disambiguation