hunting
/ˈhʌntɪŋ
/noun [mass noun]
1The activity of hunting wild animals or game: they talked about going hunting whale hunting is unnecessary...
- She was the goddess of hunting, wild animals, childbirth, nature, and the harvest.
- Big game hunting has long been a controversial topic.
- Thus the kind of domination represented by big game hunting had altered significantly.
Synonyms
blood sports, field sports, stalking, trapping, coursing, fox hunting, the chase;
poaching;
Indian shikar
archaic venery
2 [in combination] The activity of searching for something: house-hunting
3 (also plain hunting) Bell-ringing A simple system of changes in which bells move through the order in a regular progression.