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* The ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/16982340 Cat & Mouse]]'' is about Marinette and Adrien indulging in a rooftop chase. It helps that they're superheroes who can easily leap long distances and keep their balance.
* In ''Fanfic/BridgeToTerabithia2TheLastTime'' [[note]](an LDD-fanfic, obviously) [[/note]], Jess and Leslie, after admitting they truly have feelings for each other while becoming college roommates, frequently chases after each other in a playful manner, hugging and grabbing while trying to kiss each other, including one rather intimate bonding scene in their childhood fantasyland of Terabithia... which is witnessed by Jess' younger sisters, Maybelle and Joyce Ann. [[SickeninglySweethearts Both the little girls thought their flirting is rather disgusting, to be honest]].

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* ''Film/RobinHoodCzwartaStrzala'': [[LoveAtFirstSight Within a single scene]], Marion and Robin progress from coy looks and goofy smiles to merry frolicking on a meadow - this is [[SickeninglySweet so cute]] the narrator decides we'd better go and see what the Sheriff of Nothingham is up to.
* In ''Film/TheFavourite'', Abigail and Masham engage in a strangely vicious version of this (as fitting for the film's themes) in which he genuinely tries to tackle her to the ground and she sincerely kicks and punches him, all while they giggle as though this is delightful fun. And while Abigail may have simply been using him, Masham does fall in love with her.
* ''Film/CoolAsIce'': While Ice and Kathy are developing their relationship, there are shots of them playfully chasing each-other around a construction site, interspersed with scenes of them talking.

* In ''Film/TheFamilyMan'', Jack realizes Kate is eating the slice of cake he saved for himself; she responds by running with it, and Jack's irritation quickly turns into a goofy, flirty chase trying to take the cake back until he pulls her down on the stairs. It's the first time he starts bonding to his new modest life.
* ''Film/TheGrifters''. One night, Myra tells her boyfriend Roy that's she's too tired to have sex with him. A short time later, she appears naked before him and entices him into chasing her around her room. He catches her, throws her over his shoulder, drops her on a bed and joins her.
* In ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', one of the bonding scenes in the FallingInLoveMontage between Padme and Anakin had both of them chasing after each other in a playful way on the meadows of Naboo.
* In ''Film/TheScarletFlower'', the Prince and Alyona happily chase each other through the palace gardens on the morning of their wedding day.

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* In the Literature/JunieBJones book ''Dumb Bunny'', Sheldon and Lucille have a schoolkid romance. At one point, Sheldon chases her around the school grounds, calling her a "[[AffectionateNickname springy little lamb]]." Junie B. thinks the nickname is hilarious, while May claims Sheldon is clearly trying to flatter Lucille into letting him win the grand prize of her egg hunt.
* ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer'': After Tom gets Becky Thatcher to say "I love you" to him, she springs away from him and runs around and around the desks in the schoolroom with Tom chasing her. When he catches up to her, he puts his arms around her neck and asks for a kiss.
* A variation occurs in ''Literature/SannikovLand'' at the Onkilons' wife-choosing festival. Men (in heavy clothes and armed) must choose their wives from a lined-up row of [[NationalGeographicNudity naked women]] and then chase them: if a man catches the woman he has picked, they're considered married. Since usually women, with nothing to slow them down, can only be caught if they want it, the trope is played straight more often than not. However, some quick-thinking men think up all sorts of tricks to startle their chosen bride and catch her even if she is unwilling.
* In ''[[Literature/GentlemenPreferBlondes But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes]]'', Lorelei describes this as the highlight of her brief career as a movie actress.
-->I did not care what it was full of, so long as it was full of plenty of cute scenes where the leading man would chase me around the trunk of a tree and I would peek out at him, like Creator/LillianGish.

* In ''[[Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar The Black Gryphon]]'', we learn that gryphons engage in "courtship chases" when Skandranon and Zhaneel resolve their [=UST=] with one.
* In ''[[Literature/GreatGusliar The Martian Philtre]]'', Savich, right after his rejuvenation, has a dream involving himself and a lovely nymph engaged in a chase like this.
* Luthien pulls Beren into one of these in an early version of [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium their tale]] after she's seen him watch her in the woods with a dreamy expression on his face a couple of times. She just wants him to meet her parents and inadvertantly sets the plot in motion.

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* In the opening of the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "War Stories", Kaylee chases River after the latter steals an apple from her. Considering that they had a whole shipment of apples to choose from, and yet River chooses to steal Kaylee's apple specifically, and Kaylee decides to try and get that specific apple back rather than simply getting another one, one might infer that there was some flirtation in their chase, especially when contrasted with a later scene where River violently kills Niska's men to protect Kaylee.
* In ''Series/CruelSummer'', [[spoiler:flashbacks show Martin chasing Kate around during the flirtation portion of their relationship.]]

* Alternative R&B singer Music/{{Masego}}'s music video for his song "Mystery Woman" sees him following after the eponymous mystery woman in [[EtherealWhiteDress a white dress]] through a romantic Roman garden, through city streets, all the way to the beach, where she is suddenly joined by two other women as they sit in the ocean, lightly insinuating that she may or may not be a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaid]].
* Music/MichaelJackson's video for "Music/TheWayYouMakeMeFeel" features Jackson following a woman walking home alone in the city. Later he is joined by a group of guys who join him in his pursuit as backup dancers.

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* In ''Theatre/{{Amadeus}}'', Salieri first sees Mozart chasing his girlfriend (later wife) Constanze around the room, playfully grabbing at her dress and dragging her towards him. She makes a token effort to escape, but is laughing the entire time, and eventually lets him catch her.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts'':
** In the ''WesternAnimation/SillySymphony'' short "WesternAnimation/MusicLand", the Prince of the Isle of Jazz chases after the Princess of Symphony Land to give her a kiss. He tries to hide and surprise her, but ends up kissing the queen instead, which lands him in jail.
** In ''Boat Builders'', Goofy falls in love with a mermaid mannequin for the ship and finds that it vanished while he wasn't looking. He then sees her calling "Yoo-hoo!" (actually Mickey trying to carry it away and getting it stuck in ship's whistle cord), and Goofy believes "she" wants to play.

* Luthien does this to Beren in one of the early versions of [[Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium their tale]] after she's seen him watch her in the woods with a dreamy expression on his face a couple of times. She just wants him to meet her parents and inadvertantly sets the plot in motion.

* ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' has a...pretty bizarre one where Sam Porter Bridges happily chases after his sister Amelie on her Beach after he had seemingly defeated the game's BigBad.