coursing
noun
cours·ing ˈkȯr-siŋ 
1
: the pursuit of running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent
2
: the act of one that courses
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Fluid lights undulated on the field surface, mimicking the coursing of blood. 
James Poniewozik, New York Times, 23 July 2021 Kritsky said the coursing of male cicadas is now peaking around the low to mid-70s. Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 16 June 2021 Thursday, a very significant slice of that age group already has one vaccine or another coursing through their veins. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021 Releasing the brake sends the engine's full power coursing through the all-wheel-drive system, which shuffles torque to all four wheels. David Beard, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2020 Babs and Riley were entered in the outlaw events (for lure coursing and rat hunt). Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 July 2019 Both days saw a full schedule of events, including categories for racing, conformation, trailing and locating, GTG/SE, rat roundup, agility, lure coursing, and Outlaw Terrier games. Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 July 2019 The United States scored early, but France did not wilt, the rhythm of the game beating ever faster, its pulse racing and its blood coursing. New York Times, 28 June 2019 The conductor Bertrand de Billy led a coursing, richly detailed and colorful account of the score. Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018 See More
James Poniewozik, New York Times, 23 July 2021 Kritsky said the coursing of male cicadas is now peaking around the low to mid-70s. Sarah Brookbank, The Enquirer, 16 June 2021 Thursday, a very significant slice of that age group already has one vaccine or another coursing through their veins. Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2021 Releasing the brake sends the engine's full power coursing through the all-wheel-drive system, which shuffles torque to all four wheels. David Beard, Car and Driver, 23 Apr. 2020 Babs and Riley were entered in the outlaw events (for lure coursing and rat hunt). Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 July 2019 Both days saw a full schedule of events, including categories for racing, conformation, trailing and locating, GTG/SE, rat roundup, agility, lure coursing, and Outlaw Terrier games. Gabrielle Copeland Schoeffield, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 18 July 2019 The United States scored early, but France did not wilt, the rhythm of the game beating ever faster, its pulse racing and its blood coursing. New York Times, 28 June 2019 The conductor Bertrand de Billy led a coursing, richly detailed and colorful account of the score. Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2018 See More Word History
First Known Use
1538, in the meaning defined at sense 1
coursing
verb
1
as in chasing
to go after or on the track of after coursing the conspirators for months, the federal agents closed in and made the arrests Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- chasing
- tracking
- pursuing
- tracing
- trailing
- following
- tailing
- escorting
- accompanying
- dogging
- running
- hounding
- tagging
- shadowing
- hunting
- watching
- bird-dogging
- running after
- seeking
- chaperoning
- observing
- eyeing
- eying
- searching (for)
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- leading
- guiding
- heading
- piloting
2
as in traversing
to make one's way through, across, or over once the threat of terrorism became apparent, fighter jets began coursing that corridor on a daily basis Synonyms & Similar Words
- traversing
- crossing
- navigating
- walking
- following
- traveling
- covering
- tracking
- transiting
- travelling
- perambulating
- hiking
- riding
- going
- treading
- tramping
- peregrinating
- running
- cutting (across)
- traipsing
- crisscrossing
- proceeding (along)
- passing (over)
3
as in racing
to proceed or move quickly racehorses coursing down the track Synonyms & Similar Words
- racing
- speeding
- hurrying
- trotting
- rushing
- driving
- flying
- zipping
- scurrying
- traveling
- running
- chasing
- darting
- jumping
- buzzing
- scooting
- travelling
- blowing
- tearing
- blasting
- dashing
- careering
- blazing
- scuttling
- hurtling
- whirling
- breezing
- barreling
- careening
- stepping
- hurling
- jogging
- ramming
- ripping
- rocketing
- haring
- bolting
- bowling
- shooting
- galloping
- motoring
- hustling
- zooming
- hastening
- pelting
- barrelling
- rustling
- whisking
- humping
- jetting
- bustling
- nipping
- belting
- hying
- bundling
- hieing
- cannonballing
- flitting
- highballing
- bombing
- scampering
- scudding
- beating it
- sprinting
- beetling
- whizzing
- making tracks
- quickening
- accelerating
- streaking
- stampeding
- getting a move on
- cracking (on)
- scuffling
- arrowing
- shaking a leg
- hotfooting (it)
- stepping on it
- overtaking
- outrunning
- outstripping
- outpacing
- stepping out
- beelining
- catching up
- fast-forwarding
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- creeping
- dragging
- crawling
- poking
- lingering
- hanging (around or out)
- poking
- lagging
- strolling
- ambling
- sauntering
- loitering
- dawdling
- dallying
- shuffling
- plodding
- lumbering
- tarrying
- decelerating
- dillydallying
- slowing (down or up)