pursue - Dictionary Definition : Vocabulary.com

Snatch the verb, pursue, when you are chasing after someone — like paparazzi pursue a celebrity.

Pursue can be traced back to the Latin prosequi "to follow with hostile intent." Today, pursue is all about following though not necessarily with bad intent. A policeman pursues a criminal or a predator its prey when the one chases and tries to catch the other. If you are pursuing a career in journalism, you are working to achieve it. You pursue a strategy or a hobby if you do it consistently.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: pursue

1	v	follow in or as if in pursuit
2	v	carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: pursue

1

v follow in or as if in pursuit

“The police car pursued the suspected attacker”

Synonyms:: follow

: follow, surveil, survey
keep under surveillance

Types:: show 7 types...; hide 7 types...; stalk
go through (an area) in search of prey; chase, chase after, dog, give chase, go after, tag, tail, track, trail
go after with the intent to catch; haunt, stalk
follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; tree
chase an animal up a tree; quest
search the trail of (game); hound, hunt, trace
pursue or chase relentlessly; run down
pursue until captured

Type of:: go, locomote, move, travel
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically

v go in search of or hunt for

“pursue a hobby”

Synonyms:: go after, quest after, quest for

Type of:: look for, search, seek
try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of

v carry further or advance

Synonyms:: act on, follow up on

Types:: check out, run down
trace

Type of:: oppose, react
act against or in opposition to

2

v carry out or participate in an activity; be involved in

“She pursued many activities”

Synonyms:: engage, prosecute

Types:: show 4 types...; hide 4 types...; commit, practice
engage in or perform; close
engage at close quarters; politick
engage in political activities; logroll
work toward the passage of some legislation by exchanging political favors such as trading votes

Type of:: act, move
perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)