Synonyms:
trailing, tracking
Meaning: the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behind
Usage examples
The mule continued his mad career down the hill, his reins trailing in the dust.
In this grand plant one is glad to have dwarf ones as well as the old trailing kinds.
Trailing one end of the wire in its beak, the Phoenix flew up into the darkness once more.
It likes to cool its long legs, as it flies, by trailing them along the surface of the water.
Ten minutes, fifteen--twenty of them passed in this cautious, breathless trailing of the swamp.
By ten o'clock next morning we had breakfasted, and were trailing toward the summit of the plateau.
Twenty minutes after the first volley the great fleet swung trailing off in the direction from which it had first appeared.
The negro had caught him, on the outside plain, as, with the bridle trailing among his feet, he was instinctively straying towards the hacienda.
The Locust is demoralized rather than tied up; it is merely bits of broken thread that he is trailing from his legs. The bold assailant does not mind.
Julia Cloud led her out to the upper porch with its rush rugs, willow chairs, and table, and its stone wall crowned with blooming plants and trailing vines.