WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

ruckus
    n 1: the act of making a noisy disturbance [syn: commotion,
         din, ruction, ruckus, rumpus, tumult]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

107 Moby Thesaurus words for "ruckus":
   Bedlam let loose, ado, agitation, altercation, barney, bedlam,
   bickering, blast, bluster, bobbery, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha,
   cacophony, chaos, charivari, chirm, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter,
   coil, commotion, controversy, din, discord, dispute, disturbance,
   donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drunken brawl, dustup, ebullition,
   embroilment, falling-out, fanaticism, ferment, flap, fomentation,
   foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury,
   fuss, hassle, hell broke loose, helter-skelter, howl, hubbub,
   hue and cry, hullabaloo, jangle, knock-down-and-drag-out,
   loud noise, melee, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium,
   passion, pell-mell, pother, racket, rage, rampage, rattle, rhubarb,
   riot, roar, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruction, rumble,
   rumpus, run-in, scramble, scrap, scrimmage, set-to, shindig,
   shindy, shivaree, squabble, stir, storminess, tempestuousness,
   thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, to-do, trouble, tumult,
   tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, upset, wildness,
   wrangle, zeal, zealousness