room clearing
Searching enclosed spaces
Room clearing is a tactical procedure for systematically entering and securing an enclosed space, typically used by military and law enforcement personnel.
The goal is to neutralize threats and confirm no hostile presence remains.
The term extends to any methodical search of interior spaces: The SWAT team practiced room clearing drills.
In casual use, something can be room clearing if it drives people out—a particularly foul smell, for instance.
- breachBreaking of agreement
- tacticalStrategically planned
- SWATElite police squad
- close quartersRestricted space, minimal distance
- doorwayPassage into a room
flashbang · stack · entry · point man · sweep · hostile · operators · threshold · corner · pie · button hook · dynamic · explosive · hallway · cover · concealment · muzzle · target
- declutteringdecluttering, organizing, donating, purging, discarding
- military tacticstactics, flanking, maneuver, ambush, battle formations
- SWATSWAT, tactical team, entry team, ballistic shield, battering ram
- infantry tacticsfire and maneuver, flanking maneuver, battle drills, defensive positions, ambush tactics
- Shoot Houselive fire, dynamic entry, paper target, shooting lane, bullet trap
- combatbattle, fight, combat, unarmed combat, grappling
room clearingperimeter security
Protection of outer limits
building evacuation · containment · tactical withdrawal · withdrawal · exfiltration
room clearingdefensive holding
Restraining without the ball
dig in · fortification · shelter in place · barricade · overwatch
room, rooms, roomed, rooming, roommate, roommates, roomy, roomier, roomiest