hunting ground

hunting ground (plural hunting grounds)

1. An area used for hunting.
2. (figurative) A place where people can find what they are looking for.
   • 1946, Milton “Mezz” Mezzrow, Bernard Wolfe, “Tell a Green Man Something”, in Really the Blues, New York, N.Y.: Random House, book 3 (1928–1935: The Big Apple), page 209:

     Yes, it was my hunting ground, and it was solid happy. Course, my home wasn't exactly in Harlem […]

3. (figurative) Synonym of stamping ground (“a place habitually frequented”)
   • 2023, Jeff Jones, Stars and Scars: The Story of Jewish Boxing in London:

     In January 1901 he fought Jerry Driscoll back on his old hunting ground of Gateshead in the North East.

• happy hunting ground

• fishing ground