Usually means: Futile pursuit of unattainable goals.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word wild goose chase:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. wild goose chase: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. wild-goose chase, wild goose chase: Merriam-Webster
  3. wild goose chase: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. wild-goose chase: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. wild-goose chase, wild-goose chase: Collins English Dictionary
  6. wild-goose chase: Vocabulary.com
  7. wild goose chase: Wordnik
  8. wild-goose chase: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. wild-goose chase, wild goose chase: Wiktionary
  10. wild-goose chase: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. wild-goose chase: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. wild-goose chase, wild goose chase: Dictionary.com
  13. wild goose chase: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. The Wild Goose Chase, Wild-goose chase: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. wild-goose chase: Rhymezone
  16. Wild-Goose Chase: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  17. Wild-goose Chase: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  18. wild-goose chase, wild goose chase: FreeDictionary.org
  19. wild-goose chase: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Wild goose chase, wild-goose chase: TheFreeDictionary.com

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. wild-goose chase: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Wild goose chase: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (Wild goose chase)

noun:  Alternative spelling of wild-goose chase [(figuratively) A futile search, a fruitless errand; a useless and often lengthy task whose execution is inordinately complex relative to the value of the outcome.]

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