persistence hunting

persistence hunting (uncountable)

1. a type of hunting where the predator uses a combination of running and tracking to pursue the prey to exhaustion.
   • 2009 March 18, Maywa Montenegro, “The Running Man, Revisited”, in Seed‎, archived from the original on 23 March 2009, retrieved 20 April 2009:

     Lieberman believes they ran their prey to death, often called “persistence hunting.”