'Stalking' definitions:
Definition of 'stalking'
From: WordNet
noun
A hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush [syn: stalk, stalking, still hunt]
noun
The act of following prey stealthily [syn: stalk, stalking]
Definition of 'Stalking'
From: GCIDE
- Stalk \Stalk\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Stalked (st[add]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Stalking.] [AS. staelcan, stealcian to go slowly; cf. stealc high, elevated, Dan. stalke to stalk; probably akin to 1st stalk.]
- 1. To walk slowly and cautiously; to walk in a stealthy, noiseless manner; -- sometimes used with a reflexive pronoun. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Into the chamber he stalked him full still. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- [Bertran] stalks close behind her, like a witch's fiend, Pressing to be employed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To walk behind something as a screen, for the purpose of approaching game; to proceed under cover. [1913 Webster]
- The king . . . crept under the shoulder of his led horse; . . . "I must stalk," said he. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- One underneath his horse, to get a shoot doth stalk. --Drayton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To walk with high and proud steps; -- usually implying the affectation of dignity, and indicating dislike. The word is used, however, especially by the poets, to express dignity of step. [1913 Webster]
- With manly mien he stalked along the ground. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Then stalking through the deep, He fords the ocean. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- I forbear myself from entering the lists in which he has long stalked alone and unchallenged. --Merivale. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'stalking'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- chase,
- chevy,
- chivy,
- clandestine behavior,
- clandestinity,
- coursing,
- covertness,
- cynegetics,
- dogging,
- domiciliary visit,
- dragnet,
- exploration,
- falconry,
- follow,
- follow-up,
- following,
- forage,
- fox hunting,
- frisk,
- furtiveness,
- gunning,
- hawking,
- house-search,
- hue and cry,
- hunt,
- hunting,
- perquisition,
- posse,
- probe,
- prosecution,
- prowl,
- prowling,
- pursuance,
- pursuing,
- pursuit,
- quest,
- ransacking,
- rummage,
- search,
- search party,
- search warrant,
- search-and-destroy operation,
- searching,
- seeking,
- shadowing,
- shiftiness,
- shikar,
- shooting,
- slinkiness,
- slyness,
- sneakiness,
- sport,
- sporting,
- stalk,
- stealth,
- stealthiness,
- still hunt,
- surreptitiousness,
- tracking,
- tracking down,
- trailing,
- turning over,
- underground activity,
- underhand dealing,
- venery