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pursuit

/pɝˈsut/

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What does pursuit mean?

noun

  1. The act of pursuing.
  2. A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly.
  3. A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (obsolete) prosecution

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Tarzan took to the trees in pursuit, and in a few moments came in view of the men desperately striving to escape.
Edgar Rice BurroughsTarzan of the ApesProject Gutenberg ebook #78
She could go there after anything unpleasant below, and find immediate consolation in some pursuit, or some train of thought at hand.
Jane AustenMansfield ParkProject Gutenberg ebook #141
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This was my answer with respect to those youths who were bent on this pursuit, trusting that they would soon outgrow it.
Henry David ThoreauWalden, and On The Duty Of Civil DisobedienceProject Gutenberg ebook #205
As much wealth was gained by the pursuit of the revived iron manufacture in Sussex, iron-mills rapidly extended over the ore-yielding district.
Samuel SmilesIndustrial Biography: Iron Workers and Tool MakersProject Gutenberg ebook #404
As regards the pursuit of riches and pleasures, we yet further discover in one a princely, in the other a tyrannical disposition.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674