search teams
Groups finding lost
Search teams are organized groups assembled to locate missing persons, lost objects, or specific targets.
The term appears most often in emergencies—rescuers combing wilderness for a hiker, investigators sifting rubble after a disaster: Search teams worked through the night looking for survivors.
The phrase also applies to less urgent contexts like recruitment: The company deployed search teams to find executive talent.
- rescueSave from harm
- missingNot present, whereabouts unknown
- missing personUnlocated person sought by authorities
- lost hikerPerson astray in wilderness
- last seenMost recent observation
helicopter · dogs · K-9 unit · volunteers · wilderness · trackers · survivors · grid · grid pattern · flashlights · whistles · cadaver · debris · coastguard · manhunt · foul play · combing · scour
- disaster responsedisaster relief, first responders, emergency preparedness, emergency shelter, evacuation plans
- humanitarian aidaid, aid organizations, aid workers, disaster relief, aid agencies
- rescuerescue, rescue dog, save, help, SAR
- missing personsmissing person, disappearance, missing children, missing child, vanished
- lifesaverslifeguards, paramedics, firefighters, doctors, nurses
- disaster siteground zero, blast zone, debris, rubble, wreckage
search teamsfugitives
Those fleeing from law
evaders · escapees · runaways · absconders · missing persons
search, team, searches, searched, searching, searcher, searchers, searchable, teams