Definition of Hunting

1. Noun. The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport.

Exact synonyms: Hunt
Generic synonyms: Field Sport, Outdoor Sport, Blood Sport
Specialized synonyms: Battue, Beagling, Coursing, Deer Hunt, Deer Hunting, Duck Hunting, Ducking, Fox Hunting, Foxhunt, Pigsticking
Examples of category: Bag, Batfowl, Ensnare, Entrap, Snare, Trammel, Trap, Gin
Derivative terms: Hunt, Hunt, Hunt, Hunt, Hunt

2. Noun. The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone.
Exact synonyms: Hunt, Search
Generic synonyms: Activity
Specialized synonyms: Exploration, Forage, Foraging, Frisk, Frisking, Looking, Looking For, Manhunt, Quest, Seeking, Ransacking, Rummage, Scouring, Shakedown
Derivative terms: Hunt, Hunt, Search, Search

3. Noun. The work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts.
Exact synonyms: Hunt
Specialized synonyms: Canned Hunt, Stalk, Stalking, Still Hunt, Birdnesting, Predation
Generic synonyms: Labor, Labour, Toil
Derivative terms: Hunt, Hunt, Hunt, Hunt

Definition of Hunting

1. n. The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

Definition of Hunting

1. Noun. Chasing and killing animals for sport or to get food. ¹

2. Noun. Looking for something, especially for a job or flat. ¹

3. Noun. (engineering) Fluctuating around a central value without stabilizing. ¹

4. Verb. (present participle of hunt) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hunting

1. an instance of searching [n -S]

Medical Definition of Hunting

1. The pursuit of game or of wild animals. Happy hunting grounds, the region to which, according to the belief of American Indians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to be happy in hunting and feasting. Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). Hunting cat, a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. Hunting watch. See Hunter. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hunting

hunted person
huntedly
hunter
hunter's chicken
hunter's moon
hunter's sauce
hunter-gatherer
hunter-gatherers
hunter-gathering
hunter green
hunter greens
hunteress
hunters
huntest
hunteth
hunting (current term)
hunting-crop
hunting-crops
hunting-horn
hunting-horns
hunting and gathering society
hunting and gathering tribe
hunting and pecking
hunting crop
hunting dog
hunting expedition
hunting ground
hunting guide
hunting horn
hunting horns

Literary usage of Hunting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Sportby C. M. van Stockum by C. M. van Stockum (1914)
"East-Africa, big- game, 3151-52 hunting, Central-Africa, big-game, 3155-56 hunting, South-Africa, 103, 111-12 hunting, America, 2981 hunting of the auto, ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1885)
"Hawking, hunting, Fishing, with the True- Measures of Blowing ' (bl Printed by Edward Alide, 4to, 44 leaves). During the sixteenth century the 'Boke' was so ..."

3. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1916)
"hunting—Continued Selecting the right delivery equipment. System Canada What a new system ... A. Stoddart. il Tibet hunting In an unknown land. WR Gilbert. ..."

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