paper chase
Cross-country trail game
A paper chase is a pursuit of documents, credentials, or bureaucratic requirements.
Originally a cross-country race where runners follow a trail of scattered paper scraps, the term now typically describes the exhausting process of gathering paperwork: Getting a visa turned into a months-long paper chase.
In legal and academic contexts, it refers to the relentless pursuit of qualifications or documentation.
- documentWritten or electronic file
- huntPursuit of quarry
- job huntPursuit of employment
- pursuitAct of chasing something
- bureaucracyRigid administrative system
legal · diploma · degree · cap and gown · rat race · nine to five · credentials · film · law school · law degree · Cambridge · ivory tower · Harvard · tradition · running · finish line · competition · academic
- paper gameshangman, tic-tac-toe, dots and boxes, battleship, boxes
- pursuitpursuit, pursue, pursuing, track down, follow
- chasepursuer, manhunter, hunter, tracker, seeker
- futilityfutile, futility, in vain, pointlessness, vain
paper chasescavenger hunt
Game of locating items
treasure hunt · meditation retreat · geocaching · hide and seek · Easter egg hunt
paper chasehands-on experience
Learning through direct involvement
practical training · learning by doing · apprenticeship · on-the-job training · school of hard knocks
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