Racket may refer to: *

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 o ...

, 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 vio ...

, 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 ...

, 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"). Hi ...

, 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, 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 Marc ...

, Tanya Roberts and Franco Interlenghi * ''Racket'' (album), a 2007 album by Whitehouse * Racket (Minnesota), an alternative news site in Minnesota * The Racket (disambiguation)

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