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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)The settlers adopted sport hunting, as they did other elements of British culture, but they had to adapt it. Social circumstances and biological realities reshaped it and gave it new meaning. There was no elite monopolizing access to land. Indeed, the great attraction and boast of these nations were of land for all.
From classical times onwards, games and sports were thought of as training for actual combat. The most important and sustained mediator between battle and sport was hunting, one of several sports regularly designated the 'Sport of Kings'.
[...] hunting expeditions, as Xenophon makes plain, are images of war; therefore to men of rank such activity is honorable and necessary.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)The settlers adopted sport hunting, as they did other elements of British culture, but they had to adapt it. Social circumstances and biological realities reshaped it and gave it new meaning. There was no elite monopolizing access to land. Indeed, the great attraction and boast of these nations were of land for all.
Hunting, sport that involves the seeking, pursuing, and killing of wild animals and birds, called game and game birds, [...]
hunting [...] chasing and killing an animal or bird for food, sport, or profit
Hunting is the chasing and killing of wild animals by people or other animals, for food or as a sport.
Hunting is the practice of pursuing, capturing, or killing wildlife.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link){{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)For the first time at a global scale, the report has ranked the causes of damage. Topping the list, changes in land use—principally agriculture—that have destroyed habitat. Second, hunting and other kinds of exploitation. These are followed by climate change, pollution, and invasive species, which are being spread by trade and other activities. Climate change will likely overtake the other threats in the next decades, the authors note. Driving these threats are the growing human population, which has doubled since 1970 to 7.6 billion, and consumption. (Per capita of use of materials is up 15% over the past 5 decades.)
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)hunting [...] chasing and killing an animal or bird for food, sport, or profit
Hunting is the chasing and killing of wild animals by people or other animals, for food or as a sport.
Hunting, sport that involves the seeking, pursuing, and killing of wild animals and birds, called game and game birds, [...]
From classical times onwards, games and sports were thought of as training for actual combat. The most important and sustained mediator between battle and sport was hunting, one of several sports regularly designated the 'Sport of Kings'.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link){{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)For the first time at a global scale, the report has ranked the causes of damage. Topping the list, changes in land use—principally agriculture—that have destroyed habitat. Second, hunting and other kinds of exploitation. These are followed by climate change, pollution, and invasive species, which are being spread by trade and other activities. Climate change will likely overtake the other threats in the next decades, the authors note. Driving these threats are the growing human population, which has doubled since 1970 to 7.6 billion, and consumption. (Per capita of use of materials is up 15% over the past 5 decades.)
'hunt [...] pursue and kill (a wild animal) for sport or food [...]'; 'hunting [...] the activity of hunting wild animals or game.'
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)hunting The activity of finding and killing or capturing wild animals for food, pelts, or as a field sport.
In very general terms, hunting refers to the activity of pursuing and killing free-roaming animals.
hunting [...] the activity of following and killing wild animals for sport