To provide a gut protective body, which defies a damage occurred when the gut is stretched with a high tension, excels in durability and is, moreover, capable of revealing a good elasticity characteristic at a strike, while suppressing the increase of mass to a minimum.

A protruding part 9, which receives a turn of the gut, is formed as one body on the surface of a belt part 7 of a cylindrical part 4 adjacent to the part 7, while a recessed part 11 is provided toward inside of the protruded part 9 from a lower side face 10 of a racket at the belt part 7, corresponding to a part where the protruding part 9 is provided.