hunting

1. associated with:

   • drive - (hunting) chase from cover into more open ground
   • drive - (hunting) search for game
   • bag - capture or kill, as in hunting
   • batfowl - catch birds by temporarily blinding them
   • ensnare, entrap, snare, trammel, trap - catch in or as if in a trap
   • gin - trap with a snare
   is a type of:

   • field sport, outdoor sport - a sport that is played outdoors
   • blood sport - sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: hunt
2. is a type of: activity - any specific behavior
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: hunt, search
3. is a type of: labor, labour, toil - productive work (especially physical work done for wages)
   subtypes:

   • 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
   same as: hunt

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