hunting

Also used as

hunting is also the present participle and gerund of hunt.

hunting meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Examples of hunting in a sentence

• The hunting dog drove the birds out of the tall grass.
• Gamekeepers oversee a hunting ground to see to the wildlife's welfare and look for poachers.
• This kind of play helps the young lion cubs develop their hunting skills.

All 40 example sentences with hunting

Forms of hunting

Plural of hunting: huntings

Origin of hunting

From Middle English hunting, from Old English huntung, equivalent to hunt + -ing.

From Middle English huntynge, alteration of earlier Middle English huntinde, huntende, huntand, present participle of hunten (“to hunt”), equivalent to hunt + -ing.

Words formed from hunting

• antihunting
• asteroid-hunting
• bowhunting
• bow hunting
• canned hunting
• coolhunting
• fortune hunting
• fox hunting
• ghosthunting
• go hunting where the ducks are
• happy hunting ground
• house-hunting
• hunting boomerang
• hunting box
• hunting cap
• hunting cat
• hunting cog
• hunting crop
• hunting-crop
• hunting dog
• hunting ground
• hunting horn
• hunting-horn
• hunting jacket
• hunting knife
• hunting leopard
• hunting lodge
• hunting parson
• hunting pink
• hunting pressure
• hunting reaction
• hunting response
• hunting spider
• hunting sword
• Huntingtown
• hunting whip
• jack-hunting
• job hunting
• job-hunting
• manhunting
• minehunting
• mug-hunting
• night hunting
• nonhunting
• overhunting
• painted hunting dog
• paper hunting
• persistence hunting
• pixel hunting
• pixel-hunting
• planet-hunting
• polar bear hunting
• pothunting
• preferment-hunting
• prehunting
• scalphunting
• trophy hunting
• tufthunting
• tuft-hunting
• unicorn hunting

Related words

• cynegetic

Phrases with hunting

• hunting up
• hunting out
• drag hunting
• hunting caps
• hunting cats
• hunting cogs
• hunting dogs
• hunting down
• hunting boxes
• hunting crops
• hunting horns
• hunting pinks

Words that rhyme with hunting

• fronting
• bunting
• stunting
• affronting
• blunting
• grunting
• punting

Questions about hunting

What does hunting mean?

Hunting means the act of finding and killing a wild animal, either for sport or with the intention of using its parts to make food, clothes, etc.

What is hunting in Hindi?

Hunting in Hindi is आखेट (ākheṭ). See Hunting meaning in Hindi.

What part of speech is hunting?

Hunting can be a noun or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce hunting?

Hunting is pronounced /ˈhʌntɪŋ/.

What is the plural of hunting?

The plural of hunting is huntings.