hunting

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; exploration
a careful systematic search; forage, foraging
the act of searching for food and provisions; frisk, frisking
the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs; looking, looking for
the act of searching visually; manhunt
an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime); quest, seeking
the act of searching for something; ransacking, rummage
a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion); scouring
moving over territory to search for something; shakedown
a very thorough search of a person or a place; strip search
searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs by having them remove their clothes; probe
an exploratory action or expedition

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; battue
a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter; beagling
hunting rabbits with beagles; coursing
hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent; deer hunt, deer hunting
hunting deer; duck hunting, ducking
hunting ducks; fox hunting, foxhunt
mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox; pigsticking
the sport of hunting wild boar with spears

Type of:: field sport, outdoor sport
a sport that is played outdoors; blood sport
sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)

Types:: show 5 types...; hide 5 types...; canned hunt
a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections; stalk, stalking, still hunt
a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush; birdnesting
hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs; predation
the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey; deerstalking
stalking deer

Type of:: labor, labour, toil
productive work (especially physical work done for wages)

DEFINITIONS OF: hunting