Racket may refer to: *

Racket (crime) Racketeering is a type of organized crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercion, coercive, fraud, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly or consistently collect a profit. ...

, 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 an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock in a variety of sports. A racket consists of three major components: a widened distal end known as the ''head'', an elongated handle known as the ''grip' ...

, 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. It is infrequently called "hard rackets" to distinguish it from the related sport of squash (also called "squash rackets"). History ...

, 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 programming language, general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. The Racket language is a modern dialect of Lisp (programming language), Lisp and a descendant of Scheme (programming language), Scheme. It is ...

, 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 mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the Unit ...

, 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, 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 Belloc ...

, 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 d ...

, an alternative news site in Minnesota *

Racket (TV series) ''Racket'' was an Australian music television show broadcast by the ABC. It aired after 10pm on Saturday nights leading into '' Rage''. It was presented by James Valentine with Toby Creswell, Stephanie Lewis, Joanne Corrigan and Tim Richie. I ...

, an Australian music TV series * The Racket (disambiguation)

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