STALKING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stalking mean? 

• STALKING (noun)
  The noun STALKING has 2 senses:

1. a hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush

2. the act of following prey stealthily

  Familiarity information: STALKING used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STALKING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A hunt for game carried on by following it stealthily or waiting in ambush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

stalk; stalking; still hunt

Hypernyms ("stalking" is a kind of...):

hunt; hunting (the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "stalking"):

deerstalking (stalking deer)

Derivation:

stalk (go through (an area) in search of prey)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of following prey stealthily

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

stalk; stalking

Hypernyms ("stalking" is a kind of...):

chase; following; pursual; pursuit (the act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture)

 Context examples 

“Nothing in all this,” said Baynes, stalking, candle in hand, from room to room.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Also, he stood less in fear of them than formerly, stalking among them with a certain careless ease that was as new to him as it was enjoyable.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

One set stimulated prey pursuit behavior, such as stalking, and the other stimulated the animal to use its jaw and neck muscles.

(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)

I knew her immediately to be Miss Betsey, for she came stalking out of the house exactly as my poor mother had so often described her stalking up our garden at Blunderstone Rookery.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He could not but take it, and yet whilst he was stalking off he threw a proud glance over his shoulder at the butcher, and he said, “Monsieur, I have a dog!”

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The new fossil helps researchers unravel extinction dynamics for predatory mammals stalking African ecosystems of that long-ago time.

(Fossil discovery in Tanzania reveals ancient bobcat-sized carnivore, National Science Foundation)

One is not even made wet by the rain nor cold by the frost; while death, instead of stalking about grewsome and accidental, becomes a prearranged pageant, moving along a well-oiled groove to the family vault, where the hinges are kept from rusting and the dust from the air is swept continually away.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Especially adept did he become in stalking small living things.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Stimulation of the periaqueductal gray (PAG) portion of the brain controlled stalking and stimulation of the reticular formation controlled biting.

(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)