follow (to come or go after): I’ll take you there. Follow me, please.
pursue formal (to follow in order to catch or attack): Police pursued the bank robbers for miles.
chase (to run after someone in order to catch them): The kids chased each other in the backyard.
hunt (to chase and kill animals and birds): He hunts wild animals for food.
stalk (to follow closely and quietly): I called the police because my ex-husband was stalking me.
tail informal (to follow someone secretly in order to get information): The police had been tailing him for several months.
shadow (to follow someone secretly everywhere they go): The robbers shadowed her before the crime.
