Synonyms of hunting

hunting 1 of 2

noun

as in stalking

Related Words

• stalking
• capture
• snare
• attack
• mousetrap
• assault
• entrapment
• ambush
• trap
• sally
• surprise
• charge
• ambushment
• ambuscade

hunting

2 of 2

verb

present participle of hunt

1

as in chasing

to seek out (game) for food or sport

Native Americans of the plains hunted buffalo for food, clothing, and shelter

Synonyms & Similar Words

• chasing
• stalking
• trapping
• snaring
• tracking
• killing
• capturing
• pursuing
• dragging
• ferreting
• hounding
• shooting
• dogging
• trailing
• hawking
• netting
• culling
• poaching
• coursing
• running down
• running
• harpooning
• spooring
• gunning (for)

2

as in pursuing

to go in search of

I spent all afternoon hunting a job for the summer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pursuing
• seeking
• chasing (down)
• searching (for or out)
• shopping (for)
• foraging (for)
• looking for
• questing
• looking up
• casting about (for)
• casting around (for)
• ferreting (out)
• rooting (out)

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• losing
• hiding
• ignoring
• neglecting

3

as in searching

to go into or range over for purposes of discovery

a bag lady hunts the neighborhood for returnable bottles

Synonyms & Similar Words

• searching
• exploring
• prospecting
• probing
• scouting
• skirring
• discovering
• disclosing
• reconnoitering
• plumbing
• revealing
• unearthing
• fathoming
• sounding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of hunting

Noun

But the show instantly makes a rod for its own back by waiting until Episode 3 to turn its hero into the Count and get all the treasure-hunting, high society-infiltrating, and Machiavellian scheming underway. —Jon O'Brien, IndieWire, 19 Mar. 2026

The Neighborhood, in the Mission, is start-up bros hunting for VC money. —Joe Hagan, Vanity Fair, 18 Mar. 2026

Verb

The Gates Foundation funding was to support a polio eradication campaign in parts of rural Pakistan and Afghanistan, where years of vaccination progress had been undone after a CIA operation in Pakistan in which agents posed as vaccinators while hunting for Osama bin Laden. —Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 19 Mar. 2026

Environmental and hunting groups have filed a lawsuit demanding the California Department of Fish and Wildlife throw out a resource management plan that includes shooting and killing all the deer on Catalina Island, documents show. —Steve Scauzillo, Daily News, 18 Mar. 2026