What is another word for coursing?

Pronunciation: [kˈɔːsɪŋ] (IPA)

Coursing refers to the pursuit of game or quarry for sport, typically using dogs to chase and capture the prey. Synonyms for coursing include hunting, chasing, pursuing, tracking, trailing, searching, and stalking. These words all convey the sense of tracking and pursuing prey, whether for sport or for survival. While coursing may suggest a more formal and organized pursuit, hunting and chasing imply a more spontaneous and dynamic activity. Pursuing and tracking suggest a more focused and determined effort, while trailing and searching imply a more cautious and patient approach. Stalking, on the other hand, refers to a more covert and stealthy approach to pursuing prey.

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Usage examples for Coursing

After coursing for, it may be, miles underground, such water eventually emerges as springs, which contain in solution the various ingredients which the water has chemically extracted from the rocks.
"Geology"
James Geikie
The thought of this cowardly act sent the blood coursing rapidly through his veins, and a desire came upon him to rush forth, confront them, and frustrate their evil designs.
"If Any Man Sin"
H. A. Cody
Yet none of them had sent the warm blood coursing through his veins like quicksilver, or had stolen through his senses with such sweet heart-stirring impetuosity as did the presence of this tall, fair girl, walking serenely by his side in thoughtful silence.
"The New Tenant"
E. Phillips Oppenheim

Famous quotes with Coursing

  • I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.
    Muhammad Iqbal
  • Not as in rest she bowed, But large hot tears were coursing down her cheek. And her low-panted sobs broke awefully Upon the sleeping echoes of the night.
    Lewis Carroll
  • Death is hard to keep in mind when there is work to be done. … Work does not by its nature permit us to do anything other than take it too seriously. It must destroy our sense of perspective, and we should be grateful to it for precisely this reason, for allowing us to mingle ourselves promiscuously with events, for letting us wear thoughts of our own death and the destruction of our enterprises with beautiful lightness, as mere intellectual propositions. … We function of the basis of a necessary myopia. Therein is the sheer energy of existence, a blind will no less impressive than that which we find in a moth arduously crossing a window ledge, … refusing to contemplate the broader scheme in which he will be dead by nightfall. The arguments for our triviality and vulnerability are too obvious, too well known and tedious to rehearse. What is interesting is that we may take it upon ourselves to approach tasks with utter determination and gravity even when their wider non-sense is clear. The impulse to exaggerate the significance of what we are doing, far from being an intellectual error, is really life itself coursing through us.
    Alain de Botton

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