hunting

[Hunt·ing]

The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

...

The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

Noun
the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport

Noun
the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts

Noun
the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

p. pr. & vb. n.
of Hunt

n.
The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

Hunting

Hunt"ing , n. The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. 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. Tylor. -- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below). -- Hunting cat (Zo'94l.), the cheetah. -- Hunting cog (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared wheels which makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smaller wheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs of teeth. -- Hunting dog (Zo'94l.), the hyena dog. -- Hunting ground, a region or district abounding in game; esp. (pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians in search of game. -- Hunting horn, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge. -- Hunting leopard (Zo'94l.), the cheetah. -- Hunting lodge, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting. -- Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray. -- Hunting shirt, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather. -- Hunting spider (Zo'94l.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead of catching it in a web; a wolf spider. -- Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.

The pursuit of game or of wild animals.

...

Usage Examples

I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Everyone knows on Thanksgiving morning to get up, turn on the TV and watch the parade, so to be an actual participant is going to be fun and I'm looking forward to it. I am gonna have to put on my deer hunting gear, though, to stay warm!

Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday I got a .22. He got a hunting knife I got a hunting knife.

My dad is very successful in his business. He's always been big in having hobbies and having little ways to get away. He always made time for hunting and fishing. He always encouraged me to do it.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

Misspelled Form

hunting, ghunting, yhunting, uhunting, jhunting, nhunting, gunting, yunting, uunting, junting, nunting, hgunting, hyunting, huunting, hjunting, hnunting, hyunting, h7unting, h8unting, hiunting, hjunting, hynting, h7nting, h8nting, hinting, hjnting, huynting, hu7nting, hu8nting, huinting, hujnting, hubnting, huhnting, hujnting, humnting, hu nting, hubting, huhting, hujting, humting, hu ting, hunbting, hunhting, hunjting, hunmting, hun ting, hunrting, hun5ting, hun6ting, hunyting, hungting, hunring, hun5ing, hun6ing, hunying, hunging, huntring, hunt5ing, hunt6ing, huntying, huntging, huntuing, hunt8ing, hunt9ing, huntoing, huntjing, huntking, huntung, hunt8ng, hunt9ng, huntong, huntjng, huntkng, huntiung, hunti8ng, hunti9ng, huntiong, huntijng, huntikng, huntibng, huntihng, huntijng, huntimng, hunti ng, huntibg, huntihg, huntijg, huntimg, hunti g, huntinbg, huntinhg, huntinjg, huntinmg, huntin g, huntinfg, huntintg, huntinyg, huntinhg, huntinbg, huntinvg, huntinf, huntint, huntiny, huntinh, huntinb, huntinv, huntingf, huntingt, huntingy, huntingh, huntingb, huntingv.

Other Usage Examples

I'm learning to hunt with rifles, because if you think about it, hunting gets you the healthiest meat - organic, free-range food. It's a totally yuppie spin on what I thought was kind of a redneck occupation.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

Being a press secretary is like learning to type: You're hunting and pecking for a while and then you find yourself doing the touch system and don't realize it. You're speaking for the president without ever having to go to him.

There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter.

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.