The object of the present paper is to study Ricci semisymmetric contact metric manifolds. As a consequence of the main result we deduce some important corollaries. Besides these we study contact metric manifolds satisfying the curvature condition Q. R = 0, where Q and R denote the Ricci operator and curvature tensor respectively. Also we study the symmetric properties of a second order parallel tensor in contact metric manifolds. Finally, we give an example to verify the main result.