fox hunting

English

Noun

fox hunting (uncountable)

1. 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.
   • 1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 319:

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

Related terms

• foxhunt

References

• “fox hunting”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.