Wiktionary
n. (context sports English) The visiting team; the team that is playing away from home.
Wikipedia
Away team may refer to:
- Away team (Star Trek term), a group assembled to go on extravehicular missions in Star Trek
- Star Trek: Away Team, a real-time tactics video game
- The Away Team (group), a hip hop duo from North Carolina
- Away team, a sports team on the road and thus without the home advantage
- Away Team, a US roller soccer team
In the Star Trek fictional universe, an away team is a term used by Starfleet for an extravehicular operation to another spacecraft or the surface of a planet. The Operations Management Officer (Ops) helps to coordinate the away team. The term was first used on Star Trek: The Next Generation to refer to what The Original Series called a landing party or a boarding party. Away teams usually feature at least one " redshirt".
Usage examples of "away team".
Now he had to discover how the away team did in reviving the Supreme Ruler.
For a good fifteen years it was the formal response to any goal scored by any away team at any football ground in the country (variations at Highbury were “.
The entire scene was much less sinister than it had been when the away team had beamed over earlier.
Gomez appreciated his preparation even though he was not slated to be part of the away team.
But she was determined first to get every member of her away team off Darona alive.
Wait for reports from Number One and Chief Argyle, both now part of the extensive away team on the derelict.
Wait, and try to mask his uneasy impatience, his frustration at being stuck here on the bridge and not being in the midst of the away team as it probed for the derelict’.
But the away team was prevented from reaching the shuttle by the peculiar creature called Armus.