fox hunting

1. 1.

   mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox

   Synonymsfoxhunt

   Broaderhunt

Questions about fox hunting

What does fox hunting mean?

fox hunting means "mounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox".

What is another word for fox hunting?

Close synonyms include foxhunt. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fox hunting a common word?

fox hunting is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.