hunt
see also ANIMAL
- (used about people or animals) to look for and follow wild animals in order to catch or kill them: hunt (sth); noun (U): hunting
Owls hunt by night. ◎ to hunt deer ◎ I don't like the idea of hunting wild animals.
- to spend time hunting: go* hunting
- an event in which people go out to hunt for certain animals: hunt
a fox hunt
- a person who hunts: hunter
- animals which hunters hunt: game (noun U); large animals like elephants and lions: big game
a big game hunter
- a kind of dog which is used in hunting: hound
a foxhound
- sports in which people hunt and kill animals: field sports, blood sports
- a series of marks in a long line that a person or animal leaves behind: trail, tracks (noun plural)
to follow a person's tracks ◎ a trail of footprints
- to get hold of an animal, fish, bird, etc: catch* sth
- a piece of equipment for catching animals, birds, etc: trap; to catch an animal in a trap: trap sth
to be caught in a trap
Note: killing birds and small animals (such as rabbits) for food or sport is not usually called hunting. If small animals or birds are killed with a gun, this is called shooting. If they are caught in a net, box, hole, etc, this is called trapping. Fish are not hunted. The word for catching and killing fish is fishing.
※ more on shooting and fishing GUN, FISH 1
- (used about an animal or bird) to kill and eat other animals or birds: prey on sth
- an animal that kills and eats other animals: predator; an animal that is preyed on: prey (noun U)
- a bird that kills and eats other birds and small animals: bird of prey
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