escapees
Those who bolted
Escapees is the plural of escapee, a person who has escaped from confinement or captivity.
The word typically applies to prisoners who have broken out of jail or detention, though it extends to anyone who has fled an unwanted situation: The escapees were captured three miles from the prison.
Unlike the related word escaper, escapee emphasizes the completed act of having gotten away rather than the ongoing effort to do so.
Those who fled
- abscondersThose who flee secretly
- evadersThose who sidestep
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
- convictsImprisoned felons
jailbreakers · deserters · defectors · outlaws · exiles · refugees · renegades · rebels
Search for a suspect
- chaseRapid following of quarry
- dragnetUnderwater haul net
- searchAct of seeking
- trackingMonitoring location over time
capture · hunt · trail · apprehension · roadblock · perimeter · canine · helicopter
runaways
Those who fled
- abscondersThose who flee secretly
- evadersThose who sidestep
- prisonersIncarcerated individuals
convicts · jailbreakers · deserters · defectors · outlaws · exiles · refugees · renegades · rebels · detainees
manhunt
Search for a suspect
tracking · capture · hunt · trail · apprehension · roadblock · perimeter · canine · helicopter · surveillance
liberation
Release from constraint
- flightAerial journey by aircraft
- breakoutSudden escape from restraint
- evasionAct of escaping detection
release · refuge · sanctuary · asylum · exodus · deliverance · emancipation · fleeing · getaway · bolt
- Crime Watchwanted posters, fugitives, missing persons, mugshots, cold cases
- Slavery EscapeUnderground Railroad, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, runaways, fugitives
- hard to catchghosts, phantoms, wraiths, spirits, specters
- aquaculture problemsdisease, parasites, sea lice, disease outbreak, disease spread
- salmon farmingfarmed salmon, fish pen, fish cage, fish hatchery, hatchery
- migrantsmigrants, arctic tern, monarch butterfly, caribou, humpback whale
- fire escapeOutdoor emergency exit route
- escape planStrategy for fleeing confinement
- escape routePlanned exit path
- narrow escapeBarely avoiding disaster
- escape roomLocked puzzle-solving venue
- no escapeNo way out