survival expert

Outdoor endurance authority

A survival expert is someone skilled in techniques for staying alive in wilderness or emergency situations—finding food and water, building shelter, navigating without instruments, signaling for rescue.

The term appears in reality television, military contexts, and outdoor education.

The survival expert showed us how to start a fire with a bow drill.

Related

lost in the woods · Bear Grylls · tracker · body heat · knife · resourceful · rugged · stranded · desert island · rescue · outdoorsman · off the grid · primitive · edible plants · wild game · water purification · snare · navigation

Opposites
wilderness competence

survival expertsitting duck

Defenseless person or thing

dead weight · fish out of water · city slicker · tenderfoot · greenhorn

expertise level

survival expertneophyte

Inexperienced beginner

weekend warrior · dabbler · dilettante · wannabe

environmental adaptation

survival experturbanite

Metropolitan resident

hothouse flower · couch potato · homebody · city dweller · shut-in

Family

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Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G