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

1 sense of foraging

Sense 1
foraging, forage -- (the act of searching for food and provisions)
       => search, hunt, hunting -- (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)

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

2 senses of forage

Sense 1
scrounge, forage -- (collect or look around for (food))
       => 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")

Sense 2
forage -- (wander and feed; "The animals forage in the woods")
       => feed, eat -- (take in food; used of animals only; "This dog doesn't eat certain kinds of meat"; "What do whales eat?")