pursuit the act of looking for or trying to find something Pursuit is a formal word 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 Rv• pursuit : the act of looking for or trying to find something • Pursuit is a formal word. 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