[endgame]

The verb I've most commonly heard for this activity in English is "forage". What's the equivalent German word?

[genthree]

"Mushroom hunting" is a fairly common phrase in English, too. It appears to have the top-level title for the page about that activity, on Wikipedia, even (mushroom foraging, mushroom picking, and mushrooming are all given as alternative terms)

Plus it's the title of a song on the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, so it has that going for it.

[peterlada]

Sadly a missed opportunity for calling it mushroom pilfering.

[euroderf]

Or mushroom requisitioning. Or mushroom commandeering. Or mushroom pillaging.

[saltybytes]

Thank you for clarifying!

The German term is "Pilze sammeln" which literally translates to: collect mushrooms.

There are many dialects of the German language - where I'm from, we would use "Schwammerl suchen" ("Schwammerl" as another term for "Pilz(e)"). This literally translates to: searching for mushrooms.

[tharkun__]

"sammeln" can have multiple translations. "Collect" would be more like "einsammeln". In the context of "Pilze sammeln", you'd use "forage". You forage for food.

[taskforcegemini]

and "Schwammerl" is even a term people use for other people