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# racket

«racket» in Mova's school dictionary: **A bat with a frame and strings, used to hit the ball in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a racket, rackets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bat with a frame and strings, used to hit the ball in tennis, badminton or squash (also spelled "racquet"). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#m1)

2) A loud, unpleasant noise: "What a racket!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#m2)

3) A dishonest way of getting money, a trick or scam. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In PE lessons pupils use rackets for tennis and badminton. In everyday life a parent might say "Stop that racket!" when children are noisy. In safety lessons, a "racket" can mean a scam that tricks people out of money. Phrases: tennis racket, make a racket, what a racket.

### examples

- I got a new tennis racket for my birthday. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#x1)
- Hold the badminton racket loosely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#x2)
- The kids made a terrible racket in the playground. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#x3)
- What a racket those crows are making! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#x4)
- Squash rackets are smaller than tennis rackets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#x5)
- The police stopped a racket that tricked old people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#x6)
- Keep your racket away from other players' heads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#x7)
- Rooster makes mo' racket dan de hin w'at lay de aig. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/#x8)

### note

Countable: a racket, two rackets. Spelling: "racquet" is another spelling for the sports bat, but not for noise. "Make a racket" means make a lot of noise. The scam meaning is used by adults and in the news.

### In the corpora

- [You keep a safe distance from someone swinging a racket.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/246-music-practice-and-ball-safety/18/)
- [Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket or bat, because it can hit your face.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/303-console-games-building-crafts-and-music/18/)
- [Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket in tennis or badminton, because rackets can hit faces.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/5/)
- [A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; the racket hit him in the face and broke his nose.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/16/)
- [Rackets and bats swung near people cause many face and eye injuries.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/328-rackets-running-football-names-goals-sledding-and-practice/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «racket» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/racket/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.