exit door
Emergency escape route
An exit door is a door designated for leaving a building, especially one marked for emergency evacuation.
Exit doors typically open outward, have panic bars, and connect to escape routes.
The term sometimes appears figuratively for any means of withdrawal from a situation: The scandal gave her critics an exit door to demand resignation.
- no entryAccess not permitted
- escapeFlight from captivity
- fire escapeOutdoor emergency exit route
- escape routePlanned exit path
- thresholdPoint of beginning
emergency · leave · departure · gateway · egress · way out · fire · evacuation · push · push bar · sign · red · hallway · flee · passage · out · one way · slam
- Lemmingslemming, lemmings, basher, blocker, bomber
- Building Safetyfire alarm, smoke detector, fire extinguisher, fire escape, sprinkler system
- emergency responsefirst responders, emergency services, fire alarm, 911, call 911
direction of passage
exit doorentrance door
Primary building access point
entry door · entrance · entryway · front door · main entrance
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