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Racquetball racket and ball. A racket or racquet[1] is an item of sporting equipment used to strike a ball or shuttlecock back-and-forth in games such as tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and padel. The typical basic structure of a racket consists of a widened distal end known as the head (which presents a flattened firm surface designed ...
A protection racket is a form of extortion whereby racketeers offer to "protect" property from damage in exchange for a fee, while also threatening (possibly in a veiled way), in part or in whole, to execute the kind of damage they claim to be offering protection against. A fencing racket is an operation specializing in the resale of stolen goods.
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 as a platform for programming language design and implementation. [9] In addition to the core Racket language, Racket is also used to refer to the family of programming languages [10] and ...
Racket sports (or racquet sports) are games in which players use a racket or paddle to hit a ball or other object. [1] Rackets consist of a handled frame with an open ...
Rackets (sport) R. P. Keigwin (right) with AEJ Collins the college's rackets team at Clifton College c. 1902. 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").
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles). Each player uses a 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 is to manoeuvre the ...
Racket may refer to: Racket (crime), a systematised element of organized crime. Protection racket, a scheme whereby a group provides protection to businesses or other groups through violence outside the sanction of the law. Racket (sports equipment), a piece of equipment used to play tennis, badminton, squash, racquetball and other racket sports.
Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or 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 players stand. Either individually or in teams of two, players take alternating turns returning a light, hollow ball over the table's net onto the ...