hunting knife is a knife used during hunting for preparing the game to be used as food: skinning the animal and cutting up the meat. It is different from the Hunting dagger which was traditionally used to kill wild game.^[1]

Some hunting knives are adapted for other uses in the wild; such as a Camp knife, which hunters may use as machetes or hatchetswhen those specific tools are not available. In this case, their function is similar to a survival knife