Synonyms of stalking

stalking 1 of 2

noun

as in hunting

Related Words

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

stalking

2 of 2

verb

present participle of stalk

1

as in chasing

to seek out (game) for food or sport

lions stalking gazelles on the plains

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

2

as in strutting

to walk with exaggerated arm and leg movements

the irate customer stalked off in a huff

Synonyms & Similar Words

• strutting
• prancing
• striding
• swaggering
• sashaying
• tiptoeing
• shuffling
• stepping
• traipsing
• sweeping
• mincing
• treading
• parading
• lurching
• padding
• pacing
• flouncing
• staggering
• promenading
• shambling
• pussyfooting
• lumbering
• pounding

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of stalking

Noun

On June 11, Vance Boelter pleaded guilty to federal charges in the murders, shootings and stalking of the victims. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Police found probable cause to charge Garrity with third-degree felony stalking. — Raul Trey Lopez, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Oct. 2026

Seidemann argued murder and stalking are different crimes and double jeopardy wouldn’t apply. — Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 9 Oct. 2026

In August, Mangione pleaded guilty to federal stalking charges. — Joe Kottke, NBC news, 2 Oct. 2026

Short-term emergency protective orders to protect victims of harassment, abuse or stalking also can be issued, the Sacramento County Superior Court self-help site said. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2026

Myers was jailed for months and pleaded guilty to felony charges of harassment and stalking. — Taylor Seely, AZCentral.com, 3 Sep. 2026

Three months after the video was posted online, the FBI arrested Michael David Barrett and charged him with interstate stalking. — Kathleen Perricone, Entertainment Weekly, 2 Sep. 2026

In addition to murder-for-hire, Durk faces charges of conspiracy and stalking. — Michael Saponara, Billboard, 27 Aug. 2026

Verb

This can be particularly concerning for people dealing with stalking, harassment or threats. — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026

Charles Henry Foss, 36, was charged Thursday with one count of second-degree unintentional murder and one count of stalking, the office said. — Stephen Swanson, CBS News, 22 Oct. 2026

Women holding local office across the country report increasing levels of harassment and threats, such as Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, the mayor of Burlington, Vermont, who was subjected to stalking this year. — Emma Schroeder, The Conversation, 21 Oct. 2026

Scandal, though, had a way of stalking the twenty-nine-year-old novelist. — Kathryn Hughes, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

The company has also been sued in connection to a stalking case and a murder-suicide. — Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism, 15 Oct. 2026

As with the previous hour, which opened with the Russian assassins stalking River and Sid at the bowling alley, this episode picks up at the suspense cliffhanger of these same assassins peeling off with an abducted Sid in their car. — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2026

The district attorney's office argued Mangione's August admission in federal court is insufficient to preclude a state trial because stalking and murder are two different crimes. — ABC News, 9 Oct. 2026

Mangione’s legal team successfully argued at the time the two underlying stalking charges in the federal indictment are not violent crimes. — Kara Scannell, CNN Money, 9 Oct. 2026