foxhunt
foxhunt Lexical Profile
foxhunt Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An organized rural event in which participants, typically on horseback, follow a pack of scent hounds to track and pursue a fox across the countryside.
"The historical novel opens with the local gentry gathering at dawn for the annual autumn foxhunt."
A competitive amateur radio activity in which participants use direction-finding equipment to locate one or more hidden radio transmitters.
"Our local amateur radio club organized a weekend foxhunt in the state park to practice directional antenna skills."
• verb
To pursue or track foxes with a pack of hounds, typically while riding on horseback.
"Members of the rural equestrian club still foxhunt along designated artificial scent trails every winter."
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