pursuit suggests a trade, profession, or avocation followed with zeal or steady interest.

PURSUIT definition: 1. an activity that you spend time doing, usually when you are not working: 2. the act of….

Your pursuit of something is your attempts at achieving it. If you do something in pursuit of a particular result, you do it in order to achieve that result.

Definition of pursuit noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

1. the act of pursuing. 2. an effort to secure or attain; quest. 3. an occupation or pastime one regularly engages in: literary pursuits. Random House Kernerman Webster's College …

There are 13 meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun pursuit, four of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

pur•suit /pɚˈsut/ n. the act of pursuing:[uncountable] raced in pursuit of the thief. an occupation or pastime that one regularly engages in:[countable] literary pursuits. Idioms in hot pursuit, …