lifeguard
- noun
- /ˈlaɪfˌɡɑrd/
- Every summer, many lifeguards are hired to ensure the safety of beachgoers.
Nothing's more New Jersey than wearing a Venice Lifeguard tank top.
- Nothing's more New Jersey than wearing a Venice Lifeguard tank top.
- My first job was I was a swim instructor, lifeguard at a pool.
- He got sunglasses over the bangs and he's a lifeguard.
- So Graham is written as we first meet him as the lifeguard.
- Mid morning, the lifeguards fan across the beach and push signposts into the sand.
- Stranger Things actor Noah Schnapp worked as a lifeguard this summer before going to college, Quote, to stay grounded.
- Just be careful not not being a killjoy, not don't go near the water, but if you're on the beach, swim between the flags with the lifeguards who are brilliant.
- Now, I was a Red Cross lifeguard, so I worked at the Eden Rock on Miami Beach for a few months.
- He's like, we have so many open lifeguard positions and so many good swimmers that are.
- Because I did a lifeguard course like I did this what the you take a course so you could be like a life rescuer lifeguard person.
Examples
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At the shore, they joined the two teenage lifeguards and a few other grownups.
Fiction book (1994) -
The most famous lifeguard of all time.
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When the girl got to the top, the lifeguard was screaming at her.
Fiction book (2000) -
My first job was I was a swim instructor, lifeguard at a pool.
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Mary, a professional lifeguard, rescues her son from drowning in the ocean.
Academic text (1991) -
Mid morning, the lifeguards fan across the beach and push signposts into the sand.
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"At least here they have all these lifeguards who've been trained in CPR," Delia told her sisters.
Fiction book (1995) -
The lifeguard rescued a struggling swimmer from the deep end of the pool.
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At the beach, the lifeguard watched closely over the children playing in the waves.
Synonyms
A person who watches swimmers and rescues them at a pool or beach
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Etymology
Lifeguard comes from the two simple parts life and guard, so it literally means someone who 'guards life'. That's why a lifeguard is the person who watches swimmers and saves them if they are in danger at a beach or pool.