- pursuit
- I(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)Act of followingNouns1. pursuit; pursuing, prosecution; pursuance; enterprise (see undertaking, business); adventure, quest, inquiry; hue and cry; game, hobby. Slang, headhunting. See sequence, sex.2. night hunting, shining, jack-lighting, spotlighting.3. chase, hunt, steeplechase, coursing; safari; venery; foxhunt.4. pursuer, hunter, huntsman, sportsman, Nimrod; hound, bloodhound; fisher, angler, fisherman or -woman; stalker.Verbs1. pursue, prosecute, follow, go after, go for; run, take, make, or chase after; gun for; carry on, engage in, undertake, set about; endeavor, court, request; seek, aim at, fish for; press on.2. chase, give chase, chase or run after, course, dog, hunt [down], hound; track down; tread or follow on the heels of; follow the hounds; run down; trail, shadow, dog; stalk. Informal, breathe down one's neck, doorstep, cruise. Slang, tail.Adjectives — pursuing, in search or quest of, in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit; on the trail, track, or scent.Adverbs — in pursuance of; at one's heels; after. Informal, on the prowl.Phrases — seek and ye shall find; set a thief to catch a thief.Quotations — The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable (Oscar Wilde), When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity (G. B. Shaw).II(Roget's IV) n.Syn. chase, race, pursuance; see hunt 2 .III(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The following of another in an attempt to overtake and capture: chase, hot pursuit. See SEEK. 2. An attempting to accomplish or attain: pursuing, quest, search. See SEEK. 3. Activity pursued as a livelihood: art, business, calling, career, craft, employment, job, line, metier, occupation, profession, trade, vocation, work. Slang: racket. Archaic: employ. See ACTION. 4. A working at a profession or occupation: practice. See DO, WORK.
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