The sport of hunting foxes across country with a pack of hounds by a group of people on foot and horseback, a traditional sport of the landed gentry now controversially banned in Great Britain.
1959 June, J. F. Oxley, D. R. Smith, “The Nottingham-Kettering line of the L.M.R.”, inTrains Illustrated, page319:
At Plumtree the railway enters the pleasant, rolling Wolds, famous forfox-hunting.