Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun lifesaving

1 sense of lifesaving

Sense 1
lifesaving -- (saving the lives of drowning persons; "he took a course in lifesaving")
       => rescue, deliverance, delivery, saving -- (recovery or preservation from loss or danger; "work is the deliverance of mankind"; "a surgeon's job is the saving of lives")