in pursuit
On the trail
In pursuit means chasing or actively seeking something.
A police car in pursuit is following a fleeing suspect.
More broadly, it describes the act of working toward a goal: She moved to LA in pursuit of an acting career.
The phrase often follows "in hot pursuit," emphasizing urgency or closeness: Reporters were in hot pursuit of the scandal.
- chaseRapid following of quarry
- huntPursuit of quarry
- questSeeking journey for something
- wild goose chaseHopeless pursuit of nothing
- houndingPersistently pursuing or pressuring
quarry · stalk · rush · track · running down · search · ambition · trail · dogged · endeavor · dash · relentless · follow · leap · prey · seeking · life and death · closing in
in pursuitin flight
Currently traveling through air
fleeing · on the run · being chased · escaping · running away
in pursuitgiving up
Choosing to stop trying
abandoning · surrendering · relinquishing · quitting · desisting
in pursuitretreating
Moving back from advance
withdrawing · falling back · backing away · receding · standing still
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