hunthunthuntshuntedhuntingverb (hunts, hunting, hunted)to chase animals to kill them as a sport or for food: Young lions have to learn to hunt.speakingWhen you talk about people spending time hunting as a sport, you say go hunting: • They went hunting in the forest.hunt for somethingto try to find something: I've hunted everywhere for my watch but I can't find it.▶ huntnoun: a fox hunta hunt for the missing child▶ huntingnoun (no plural) the activity of chasing and killing animals