The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cursorial \Cur*so"ri*al\ (k?r-s?"r?-al), a. (Zo["o]l.)
Adapted to running or walking, and not to prehension; as, the limbs of the horse are cursorial. See Illust. of Aves.
Of or pertaining to the Cursores.
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context zoology English) Adapted for running. 2 (context zoology English) Having legs fitted for running.
WordNet
adj. (of limbs and feet) adapted for running [ant: fossorial]
Wikipedia
A cursorial organism is one that is adapted specifically to run. There are different ways of distinguishing cursorial organisms; for example, they can be distinguished by feeding habits so that a horse is a cursorial grazer and a wolf a cursorial predator. Cursorial organisms are typically adapted to long-distance running at high speeds, rather than animals with high acceleration over short distances; thus, a leopard is considered cursorial, while a cheetah is not. Among vertebrates, animals under 1 kg of mass are rarely considered cursorial, as they typically move in a series of short bursts rather than at a constant speed. All extant cursorial vertebrates are endothermic, allowing high metabolic rates and high endurance, though it is possible some extinct species were ectothermic.
Some species of spiders are also considered cursorial, as they walk much of the day, looking for prey.
Usage examples of "cursorial".
Pak breeders, Man’s ancestors, and the vampires’, too, had been cursorial hunters before ever they left the galactic core.
A smaller glare (off) was the triune family, now joined for cursorial hunting, not that they'd ever catch Fiutterby.
A recent article in Analog pointed out that men are cursorial hunters.
His thought was that the anatomy he suggested would confer unprecedented cursorial ability, but I saw that it would allow something still more spectacular—a creature on a planet similar to Earth, big enough to carry around a brain sufficient for intelligence, yet able to fly.