Hunting Synonyms and Antonyms

hŭntĭng
The pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. hunt
  2. coursing
  3. venery
  4. deer hunting
  5. fox hunting
  6. the chase
  7. the hunt
  8. sporting
  9. shooting
  10. stalking
  11. falconry
  12. trapping
  13. big-game hunting
  14. boar-hunting
  15. chase
  16. pheasant shooting
  17. fowling
  18. field
  19. chevy (British)
  20. chivy (British)
  21. angling
  22. pursuit
  23. cynegetics
  24. fishing
  25. hawking
  26. still-hunt
  27. venatics
  28. field sport
  29. fishery
  30. steeplechase
  31. riding to hounds
  32. piscation
  33. gunning
  34. halieutics
  35. beagling
  36. safari
  37. shikar
  38. venation
The activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. search
  2. hunt
Seeking
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. looking-for
  2. looking around
  3. cynegetic
  4. in search of
  5. venatic

Words Related to Hunting

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. sport
  2. foxhunting
  3. wild-boar
  4. lamping
  5. drag-bloodhound
  6. hare-coursing
  7. deer
  8. hound

Hunting Sentence Examples

  • I enjoyed hunting with my father.

  • He'd grudgingly gone on the hunting trip, not wanting to leave Claire behind by herself.

  • So how did you learn all your hunting skills?

  • Our hunting trip was the first time in months, wasn't it?

  • Beetles and larvae are frequently carnivorous in habit, hunting for small insects under stones, or pursuing the soft-skinned grubs of beetles and flies that bore in woody stems or succulent roots.

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