STALK

(FOLLOW) [verb] [T] - to follow (an animal or person) as closely as possible without being seen or heardHe spent the weekend stalking deer in the Scottish highlands.The detective followed the suspect wherever he went, like a wild animal stalking its prey.The police had been stalking the woman for three weeks before they arrested her.(literary) If something unpleasant stalks a place, it appears there in a threatening way.When night falls, danger stalks the streets of the city.Famine and disease began to stalk the region after the flood.If a group of politicians use someone as a stalking horse, they make that person compete for a position in order to divide the opposition or to take attention away from another person who is competing, although that person has no chance of winning.He was used as a stalking horse in the election to steal votes from the opposition candidate.