PURSUING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pursuing mean? 

• PURSUING (adjective)
  The adjective PURSUING has 1 sense:

1. following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit

  Familiarity information: PURSUING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PURSUING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Following in order to overtake or capture or as accompaniment to such pursuit

Context example:

listened for the hounds' pursuing bark

Similar:

following (going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction)

 Context examples 

“And the brother and sister are pursuing their old course, are they?” said I.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Pursuing her way along the lane, she then began it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Meantime, you forget essential points in pursuing trifles: you do not inquire why Mr. Briggs sought after you—what he wanted with you.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The boat we were pursuing had squared away and was running before the wind to escape us, and, in the course of its flight, to take part in repulsing our general boat attack.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The line of investigation which I have myself been pursuing.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was also pursuing an object he had long had in view.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The investigators are hoping to test this concept by pursuing studies in people.

(Monoclonal antibodies against Zika show promise in monkey study, National Institutes of Health)

On pursuing the subject, he found that, dear as all these brothers and sisters generally were, there was one among them who ran more in her thoughts than the rest.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Frank's was the first idea; and his the greatest zeal in pursuing it; for the lady was the best judge of the difficulties, and the most solicitous for accommodation and appearance.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

International consortium of over 25 groups and multiple investigators pursuing collaborative research on the epidemiology of prostate cancer.

(International Consortium on Prostate Cancer Genetics, NCI Thesaurus)