fox hunting
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- noun
- /fɑks ˈhʌntɪŋ/
- UK
:
caza de zorros
- Best wishes in your fox-hunting, Your Majesty.
- ban fox hunting
- go fox hunting
- vote on fox hunting
Examples
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He loves fox hunting and trail riding.
Blog text (14) -
Fox hunting was for many years a luxury sport reserved for the rich and the royals, with the commoners looking on.
Blog text (1) -
As they put it, "fox hunting is, and always has been, open to all" (quoted in Curtis 1987: 393).
Academic text (1992) -
Debates that have been modeled, using in particular the Parmenides system (see Rahwan and Simari 2009), cover local issues, such as whether to introduce more speed cameras on dangerous stretches of road, and wider national issues, such as the UK debate about whether to ban fox hunting.
Academic text (2017) -
On weekends, the locals in the village often gather to go fox hunting with their trained hounds.
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The traditional event of fox hunting attracts many horseback riders each autumn.
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Every year, the club organizes a fox hunting event that draws participants from across the region.
Synonyms
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Chasing and killing wild animals for food, fur, or sport
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A ride where people on horses follow hounds to chase a fox
How Demanding
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound combines 'fox' and 'hunting' in a straightforward, compositional way so a learner who knows both words can readily infer it refers to the activity of hunting foxes; this follows regular English noun+noun/verb nominalization patterns common across languages. Although 'fox hunting' may evoke a specific traditional practice (hunters on horseback with hounds), that cultural detail is not necessary for understanding the core meaning.
Etymology
The noun fox hunting comes from an old country sport where riders on horses and trained dogs chased a live fox as part of hunting. So the phrase now means 'the activity of hunting a fox with trained hounds, usually with hunters on horseback'.