- stalking - moving silently and deliberately; especially pursuing stealthily and persistently; "we watched the stalking tiger approach his prey"; "a stalking specter on the castle walls at midnight"
Antonym: leading (indirect, via following)
- stalk, stalking, still hunt - a hunt for game carried on by stalking or waiting in ambush
--1 is a kind of hunt, hunting
--1 has particulars: deerstalkingDerived form: verb stalk3 - stalk, stalking - the act of following prey stealthily
--2 is a kind of pursuit, chase, following
- stalk - walk stiffly
--1 is one way to walk
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun stalk5, noun stalker1
The children stalk to the playground
- haunt, stalk - follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to; "her ex-boyfriend stalked her"; "the ghost of her mother haunted her"
--2 is one way to pursue, follow
Sample sentence:Derived form: noun stalk4
Somebody ----s something
- stalk - go through (an area) in search of prey; "stalk the woods for deer"
--3 is one way to pursue, follow
Sample sentence:Derived forms: noun stalk3, noun stalker3, noun stalker2, noun stalking1
The men stalk the area for animals