Wild-goose chase or wild goose chase may refer to:
* A pursuit of something unattainable or non-existent, such as in a fool's errand or
snipe hunt
A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch a nonexistent animal called a ''snipe''. Although snipe are an actua ...
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The Wild Goose Chase
''The Wild Goose Chase'' is a late Jacobean stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher, first performed in 1621. It is often classed among Fletcher's most effective and best-constructed plays; Edmund Gosse called it "one of the brightest a ...
'', a comedy stage play written by John Fletcher and first published in 1621
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''The Wild Goose Chase'' (1915 film), a 1915 American comedy-drama film directed by Cecil B. DeMille
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''The Wild Goose Chase'' (1932 film), a 1932 Van Beuren cartoon
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Wycliffe's Wild Goose Chase'', a crime novel by W. J. Burley
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