The word "hunting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used as a noun when referring to the pursuit of animals or to the activity of pursuing something. For example: "The school is taking the students on a hunting trip next weekend."
The Caribs soon realised they'd been had and started to make life as difficult as possible for the French, who sent out a hunting party to teach them a lesson.
"It used to be farmers' sons and daughters who came hunting.
Stevens reckons the fact that hunters (or, if the law is being observed, pseudo-hunters) are now more likely to be professional people who have moved to the Cotswolds than farmers who were born there has changed the nature of hunting.
By owning your own property, you get a say in planning law too – your objection to that new tower block counts for far more than the indirect, dissipated unease of all the people hunting desperately for somewhere affordable in the vague vicinity of their work.
Madonna ruffled feathers during the Guy Ritchie years by boasting about hunting pheasant: "I like being one of the chaps.
It took a lot of hunting around, pitching to people who had never heard of miso.
The whole anti-hunting campaign was based on a strange political obsession with the people who hunt.
These two, who between them have hunted for 150 years (I discover later that Edwards, also still following the hunt by car, is 96), open my eyes to the crucial truth about hunting: for all the arguments over the ban, it had already changed irrevocably long before the anti-hunt campaigners got their teeth into it.
It says only 21 of the 341 convictions involved hunts "registered with the Council of Hunting Associations".
Courtney Barnett: Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit Barnett can turn the most seemingly mundane topics – house-hunting, insomnia or swimming in a public pool – into scuzzy, indie-pop demonstrations of lyrical prowess.
But the true hunters, too, know that this pseudo-hunting is second best.
