A search party is a group that goes out looking for somebody lost. Organise a search party, join the search party.
It works in lines with everybody in sight of the next person, since gaps are where things are missed. A search party is called out fastest for children and for anybody in cold weather.
1nounsearch partyA group that goes out looking for somebody lost.
“A search party of forty went out along the ridge before dawn.”
search party is a group.
Practised in Emergency & Rescue