fox hunting

noun

The sport of hunting foxes across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the landed gentry now controversially banned in Great Britain.

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Meanings

nounfox hunting (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe sport of hunting foxes across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the landed gentry now controversially banned in Great Britain.

    At Plumtree the railway enters the pleasant, rolling Wolds, famous for fox-hunting.

    1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 319

Synonyms & antonyms

nounmounted hunters follow hounds in pursuit of a fox

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foxhunt
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hunthunting
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foxhunt

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

fox hunting. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fox%20hunting

MLA

“fox hunting.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fox%20hunting. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fox hunting,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fox%20hunting.

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