1) Ambuscade 2) Ambush 3) Attack by surprise 4) Blaze a trail 5) Hit by the 43rd president 6) Lie in wait 7) Lurk 8) Scupper 9) To ambush 10) To travel through woods 11) Wait 12) Wait in hiding to attack 13) Waylay 1) Blaze a trail 2) Waylay 
Off-trail hiking (originally where the going was difficult, where many bushes had to be whacked). Now it is often used to mean off-trail travel regardless of whether the going is difficult or not.
[v] - live in the bush as a fugitive or as a guerilla 2. [v] - cut one`s way through the woods or bush
verb cut one`s way through the woods or bush
to make one's way through woods by cutting at undergrowth, branches, etc. · to travel through woods. · to pull a boat upstream from on board by grasping bushes, rocks, etc., on the shore. · to fight as a bushwhacker or guerrilla in the bush.