Internethunt (pluralInternet hunts)

1. The practice ofhunting animals by controlling afirearm over theInternet.
   • 2005 March 3, “Virtual adrenalin”, inThe Economist‎^[1]:

     Mr Giles says he is honoured that Mr Lockwood, a friend and co-worker, chose him for the firstinternet hunt — even if Mr Lockwood had to grab his rifle and finish off that wild hog after Mr Giles's first shot didn't quite do the job.

   • 2005 March 20, Toby Harnden, “Hunters queue up to shoot live animals over the internet”, inThe Telegraph‎^[2]:

     The nextinternet hunt is scheduled for April 9. Dale Hagberg, 38, from Indiana, who has been paralysed from the chin down for 18 years, will use a joystick operated by his mouth to shoot at a blackbuck antelope.

   • 2009 January 30, Carrie Haderlie, “Virtual hunting shot down”, inLaramie Boomerang‎^[3]:

     During anInternet hunt, Gasson explained that a “hunter” will sit in front of a computer in any location, visit a Web site that offers hunts for a fee of about $1,500-$2,000 and wait as an animal — often a deer fenced into a small area — is lured into the sights of a remote-controlled gun with Purina Deer Chow.

   • 2011 February 4, “North Dakota bill aims to prohibit hunting via Internet”, inPark Rapids Enterprise‎^[4], archived fromthe original on21 June 2020:

     The bill also bans hosting anInternet hunt, enabling someone else to hunt through the Internet, and importing, exporting or possessing wildlife that's been killed by anInternet hunt.

2. An Internet-basedscavenger hunt.
3. A collective search for a person by Internet users; attempteddoxxing.
   • 2006 June 4, “From flash mob to lynch mob”, inCNN‎^[5], archived fromthe original on21 June 2020:

     One, a professor of psychology at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, called for an "Internet hunt for the immoral foreigner" and called repeatedly for the man to be "found and kicked out of China!!!"

   • 2017 May 12,Daily Mercury‎^[6], archived fromthe original on22 June 2020:

     Naked shark straddler sparksinternet hunt