search parties
Missing person teams
Search parties are groups organized to look for someone or something missing—a lost hiker, a child who wandered off, a downed aircraft.
The term implies systematic effort across terrain, with participants fanning out to cover ground: Search parties combed the woods until nightfall.
The singular search party refers to one such group.
- trackersThose who follow trails
- teamOrganized cooperative unit
- volunteersUnpaid willing workers
- rescueSave from harm
- mapSpatial representation of terrain
path · trail · missing children · last seen · manhunt · bloodhounds · amber alerts · grid · grid pattern · aerial view · command post · missing persons · compass · footprints · wilderness · law enforcement · dogs · cold cases
- Arctic ExplorationNorth Pole, Arctic, polar exploration, Arctic Circle, polar expedition
- missing personsmissing person, disappearance, missing children, missing child, vanished
- Franklin Expeditionlost expedition, Northwest Passage, McClintock, rescue missions, lead poisoning
- civic dutiestaxes, jury duty, paying taxes, voting, tax payment
search partieslynch mobs
Crowds enacting illegal executions
hunting parties · death squads · posses · hit squads · manhunts
party, search, research, searching, researcher, searched, researched, searcher, researching