track down

1. 1.

   pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)

   “Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland”

   “The dogs are running deer”

   “The Duke hunted in these woods”

   Synonymshuntrunhunt down

   Broadercapture

   Narrowersnipewhalestill-huntturtledriverabbitfowlpoachsealferret

Questions about track down

What does track down mean?

track down means "pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals)".

What is another word for track down?

Close synonyms include hunt, run, hunt down. 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 track down a common word?

track down is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.