racket

An implement with a handle connected to a round frame strung with wire, sinew, or plastic cords, and used to hit a ball, such as in tennis or a shuttlecock in badminton.

He bought a new tennis racket two days ago.

Ivor had acquired more than a mile of fishing rights with the house ; he was not at all a good fisherman, but one must do something ; one generally, however, banged a ball with a squash-racket against a wall.

A snowshoe formed of cords stretched across a long and narrow frame of light wood.

A broad wooden shoe or patten for a man or horse, to allow walking on marshy or soft ground.

To strike with, or as if with, a racket.

Poor man [is] racketed from one temptation to another.

A loud noise.

Power tools work quickly, but they sure make a racket.

With all the racket they're making, I can't hear myself think!

An illegal scheme for profit; a fraud or swindle; or both coinstantiated.

prostitution and gambling controlled by rackets

They had quite a racket devised to relieve customers of their money.

Any industry or enterprise.

They dropped out of the acting racket in 1953 and soon took up writing.

A carouse; any reckless dissipation.

Something taking place considered as exciting, trying, unusual, etc. or as an ordeal.