Noun

(en noun)

The act of pursuing.

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A hobby or recreational activity, done regularly.

(cycling) A discipline in track cycling where two opposing teams start on opposite sides of the track and try to catch their opponents.

(legal, obsolete) prosecution

* Fuller

That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court.

Noun

(en-noun)

(uncountable, countable) Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people.

My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition .

* Burke

the pitiful ambition of possessing five or six thousand more acres

(countable) An object of an ardent desire.

My ambition is to own a helicopter.

A desire, as in (sense 1), for another person to achieve these things.

(uncountable) A personal quality similar to motivation, not necessarily tied to a single goal.

(obsolete) The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.

* Milton

[I] used no ambition to commend my deeds.