field sport, outdoor sport - a sport that is played outdoors

blood sport - sport that involves killing animals (especially hunting)

battue - a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter

beagling - hunting rabbits with beagles

coursing - hunting with dogs that are trained to chase game by sight instead of by scent

deer hunt, deer hunting - hunting deer

duck hunting, ducking - hunting ducks

fox hunting, foxhunt - mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox

pigsticking - the sport of hunting wild boar with spears

bag - capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants"

batfowl - catch birds by temporarily blinding them

snare, trammel, trap, ensnare, entrap - catch in or as if in a trap; "The men trap foxes"

gin - trap with a snare; "gin game"

activity - any specific activity; "they avoided all recreational activity"

exploration - a careful systematic search

foraging, forage - the act of searching for food and provisions

frisk, frisking - the act of searching someone for concealed weapons or illegal drugs

looking for, looking - the act of searching visually

manhunt - an organized search (by police) for a person (charged with a crime)

seeking, quest - the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds"

ransacking, rummage - a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion); "he gave the attic a good rummage but couldn't find his skis"

scouring - moving over territory to search for something; "scouring the entire area revealed nothing"

shakedown - a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"

canned hunt - a hunt for animals that have been raised on game ranches until they are mature enough to be killed for trophy collections

labor, toil, labour - productive work (especially physical work done for wages); "his labor did not require a great deal of skill"

stalking, still hunt, stalk - a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush

birdnesting - hunting for birds' nests to get the eggs

predation - the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey