Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun coursing

1 sense of coursing

Sense 1
coursing -- (hunting with dogs (usually greyhounds) that are trained to chase game (such as hares) by sight instead of by scent)
       => hunt, hunting -- (the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb course

3 senses of course

Sense 1
course -- (move swiftly through or over; "ships coursing the Atlantic")
       => traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across -- (travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day")

Sense 2
run, flow, feed, course -- (move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the Missouri feeds into the Mississippi")
       => move -- (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right")

Sense 3
course -- (hunt with hounds; "He often courses hares")
       => hunt, run, hunt down, track down -- (pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods")