manhunt

English[edit]

man +‎ hunt

manhunt (plural manhunts)

An organized search for a criminal or enemy.
After the murderer escaped, there was a full-scale manhunt to catch him.
(playground games) A variant of hide and seek in which a player who is caught by the seeker themselves becomes a seeker, and the final player remaining is declared the winner.
- 2019 February 1, Dave Atkinson, “The Storyline: Raising kids in your hometown a lot of fun”, in CBC News‎^[1], archived from the original on 2019-02-05:
  Manhunt is a variant of hide-and-seek, she tells me. One person is the seeker. Everyone else hides. If the seeker finds you, you become a seeker, too.

organized search

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Belarusian: прасле́дванне n (prasljédvannje), прасьле́дваньне n (prasʹljédvanʹnje), вы́шук m (výšuk), абла́ва f (abláva) (raid)
Bulgarian: пресле́дване (bg) n (preslédvane), ха́йка (bg) f (hájka)
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Mandarin: 搜捕 (zh) (sōubǔ)
Dutch: klopjacht (nl) f
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: ihmisjahti, etsintä (fi)
French: chasse à l’homme (fr) f
German: Menschenjagd (de) f, Fahndung (de) f
Greek: ανθρωποκυνηγητό (el) n (anthropokynigitó)
Hebrew: מָצוֹד (he) m (matsód)
Italian: caccia all'uomo f
Khmer: please add this translation if you can
Macedonian: ха́јка f (hájka), по́тера f (pótera)
Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: obława (pl) f, pościg (pl) m
Russian: пресле́дование (ru) n (preslédovanije), ро́зыск (ru) m (rózysk), обла́ва (ru) f (obláva) (raid)
Spanish: persecución (es) f, cacería (es) f, cacería humana f
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Ukrainian: переслі́дування n (pereslíduvannja), ро́зшук m (rózšuk), обла́ва f (obláva) (raid)