• Look up racket in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Racket may refer to: Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime Protection racket, a scheme...
    1 KB (208 words) - 11:45, 2 March 2024
  • Racketeering (redirect from Racket (crime))
    crime in which the perpetrators set up a coercive, fraudulent, extortionary, or otherwise illegal coordinated scheme or operation (a "racket") to repeatedly...
    11 KB (1,227 words) - 09:43, 2 October 2024
  • The Racket may refer to: The Racket (play), a 1927 Broadway crime play by Bartlett Cormack The Racket (1928 film), an American adaptation of the play,...
    744 bytes (103 words) - 18:52, 4 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of racket sports
    Racket sports (or racquet sports) are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object. Rackets consist of a handled frame...
    3 KB (177 words) - 22:48, 7 October 2024
  • 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...
    14 KB (1,923 words) - 05:35, 18 September 2024
  • War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor...
    7 KB (822 words) - 16:49, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Racket (programming language)
    Racket is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. The Racket language is a modern dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. It is designed...
    35 KB (3,205 words) - 22:07, 28 April 2024
  • What a Racket!, also known as Mr. Joe Jackson Presents Max Champion in 'What a Racket!', is the 21st studio album by English singer-songwriter and musician...
    9 KB (810 words) - 10:16, 30 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for 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:...
    40 KB (5,469 words) - 23:31, 7 October 2024
  • The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs. the Masters of the Universe is a 2015 book by British investigative journalist Matt Kennard. The Racket is an investigative...
    4 KB (378 words) - 18:10, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Table tennis racket
    tennis racket is used by table tennis players. It is usually made from laminated wood covered with rubber on one or two sides depending on the player's...
    6 KB (771 words) - 17:04, 29 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Table tennis
    Table tennis (category Racket sports)
    whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which...
    77 KB (9,049 words) - 05:08, 3 September 2024
  • Racket Club is a virtual reality game developed by Resolution Games that combines various racket-based sports. It was released on December 14, 2023 for...
    5 KB (482 words) - 08:06, 9 September 2024
  • Numbers game (redirect from Numbers racket)
    The numbers game, also known as the numbers racket, the Italian lottery, Mafia lottery or the daily number, is a form of illegal gambling or illegal lottery...
    29 KB (4,063 words) - 08:59, 15 August 2024
  • The Big Racket (Italian: Il grande racket) is a 1976 Italian poliziottesco film directed by Enzo G. Castellari. Fabio Testi stars as a police inspector...
    6 KB (481 words) - 13:21, 19 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Racket-tailed treepie
    The racket-tailed treepie (Crypsirina temia) is an Asian treepie, a member of the crow family, Corvidae. It has a velvety-black forehead of short, plush...
    2 KB (262 words) - 21:12, 7 August 2023
  • Thumbnail for The Divorce Racket
    The Divorce Racket is a 1932 American crime drama film directed by Aubrey Scotto and starring James Rennie, Olive Borden and Judith Wood. It is now considered...
    3 KB (202 words) - 22:26, 19 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Racket (play)
    The Racket is a 1927 Broadway three-act drama written by Bartlett Cormack and produced by Alexander McKaig. It ran for 119 performances from November 22...
    2 KB (208 words) - 07:22, 13 February 2024
  • The Racket is a 1951 black-and-white film noir drama directed by John Cromwell with uncredited directing help from Nicholas Ray, Tay Garnett, and Mel Ferrer...
    8 KB (941 words) - 21:34, 17 September 2024
  • Racket has been under active development as a vehicle for programming language research since the mid-1990s, and has accumulated many features over the...
    26 KB (3,502 words) - 23:58, 7 January 2024
  • Sky Racket may refer to: Sky Racket (film) Sky Racket (video game) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Sky Racket. If an...
    153 bytes (44 words) - 23:11, 22 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Soapy Smith
    members of his gang purchased "prize" soap. The racket led to his sobriquet of "Soapy." The success of his soap racket and other scams helped him finance three...
    26 KB (3,487 words) - 23:20, 8 September 2024
  • Racket Boys (Korean: 라켓소년단) is a 2021 South Korean television drama. The series, directed by Cho Young-kwang and written by Jung Bo-hun, stars Kim Sang-kyung...
    100 KB (6,344 words) - 10:19, 18 August 2024
  • tennis is unique among racket sports in that it supports a wide variety of playing styles and methods of gripping the racket, at even the highest levels of...
    24 KB (3,553 words) - 23:29, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Racket-tail
    The genus Prioniturus, commonly known as racket-tails, contains nine parrot species found in the Philippines and Indonesia. They are easily distinguished...
    4 KB (262 words) - 23:45, 1 January 2024
  • the ball is hit with the back of the racket hand facing the ball at the moment of contact. A backhand is often hit by a right-handed player when the ball...
    106 KB (12,206 words) - 18:14, 29 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tennis racket theorem
    The tennis racket theorem or intermediate axis theorem, is a kinetic phenomenon of classical mechanics which describes the movement of a rigid body with...
    17 KB (2,681 words) - 14:42, 5 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tennis
    Tennis (category Racket sports)
    tennis racket strung with a cord to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over or around a net and into the opponent's court. The object of the game...
    130 KB (14,691 words) - 15:14, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marillion discography
    releases on the band's own Racket Records label, which are detailed separately in the relevant section below. The table below only lists the compilations...
    72 KB (1,648 words) - 18:32, 20 August 2024
  • Racket-tail is the common name for a genus of parrots (Prioniturus) from south-east Asia. Racket-tail or racquet-tail may also refer to: Racket-tailed...
    903 bytes (142 words) - 17:40, 2 August 2022