looking for vs hunting

looking for and hunting both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
looking for	Yes	No	No	No
hunting	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, hunting is a hypernym of looking for; that is, hunting is a word with a broader meaning than looking for:

looking for: the act of searching visually
hunting: the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone

Other hypernyms of looking for include hunt, search.

looking for (noun)	hunting (noun)
the act of searching visually	the work of finding and killing or capturing animals for food or pelts
	the pursuit and killing or capture of wild animals regarded as a sport
	the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone