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# hunting

«hunting» in Mova's school dictionary: **chasing and killing wild animals for food, sport or to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (hunting — uncountable); verb form (-ing of hunt: hunting)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Hunting is chasing and killing wild animals for food, sport or to control their numbers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#m1)

2) Hunting for something means looking hard for it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#m2)

3) Hunting is how predators catch their prey. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In science, predators like lions, owls, sharks and spiders survive by hunting prey; food chains show who hunts whom; some animals hunt alone and some in packs. In history, early humans were hunter-gatherers. Many places have rules for hunting to protect animals; hunting some animals, like tigers or rhinos, is banned. In everyday life, «house hunting» or «hunting for my shoe». Phrases: «go hunting», «hunting for», «treasure hunting», «egg hunt», «hunting ground».

### examples

- Owls go hunting at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#x1)
- Lions hunt in groups called prides. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#x2)
- I was hunting for my lost sock all morning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#x3)
- Early people survived by hunting and gathering. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#x4)
- Hunting tigers is against the law. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#x5)
- We went egg hunting at Easter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#x6)
- The cat is hunting a mouse in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#x7)
- My parents are house hunting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#x8)
- A BOY was hunting for locusts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/#x9)

### note

From the verb «hunt»: hunt, hunts, hunted, hunting. Hunting (noun) is uncountable. «Hunting for» = searching for. A person who hunts is a hunter. Do not confuse with «haunting» (ghosts).

### In the corpora

- [Job hunting means searching adverts and sending applications, often dozens before getting anywhere; many get no reply at all.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/3-finding-a-job-and-getting-on/5/)
- [Being glad for someone's success without hunting for a catch is part of being a good neighbour.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/42-our-street-feuds-newcomers-and-stories-that-grow/19/)
- [American alligators live in swamps, rivers and lakes in the south-eastern USA and recovered from being endangered once hunting was controlled.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/29-crocodiles-and-alligators/15/)
- [New Zealand had no ground-hunting mammals before people came, so birds like the kiwi and kakapo did not need to fly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/79-animals-of-australia-and-new-zealand/10/)
- [Big cats play with balls, ropes and barrels, especially young ones, because play trains the moves they need for hunting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/82-big-cats-house-snow-leopards-jaguars-small-cats/15/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «hunting» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hunting/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.