tracking down
Hunting for relentlessly
Tracking down is pursuing something or someone until found—typically through persistent effort or investigation.
You track down a missing document, an old friend, or the source of a problem.
The phrase suggests the target isn't immediately available: It took weeks to track down the original recording.
From hunting, where one follows tracks to locate prey.
- pursuingSeeking to attain
- chasingFollowing to catch
- hot on the trailActively closing in
- locatingDetermining position of
- followingComing after another
closing in · finding · hunting · searching · seeking · detecting · trailing · uncovering · smoking out · hound · sniffing out · unraveling · scouting · questing · pinpointing · investigating · stalking · rooting out
- searchingsearching, rummaging, digging, looking through, finding
tracking downstumbling upon
Finding by chance
stumbling across · happening upon · running into · coming across
tracking downevading
Skillfully keeping away from
eluding · escaping · fleeing · dodging · shaking off
tracking downhiding
Staying out of sight
concealing · covering tracks · covering up · burying · obscuring
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