What is "suited up"

Usage examples of "suited up".

Five minutes later we were suited up and Bob was collared and clipped to his leash.

The pilots were still there, four of them suited up in full harness, with straps and hoses and oxygen masks, and wearing speed jeans.

First thing in the morning, before his scheduled work hours, he had suited up and gone outside to take a few minutes' worth of panoramic shots of the rocks and dunes and distant mountains in the area around the dome.

Simon programmed the computer to keep working on it, and they suited up and went out and wandered around a bit, to make sure they had stepped on it.

Now their floatdisks were speeding down empty hallways, banking at the corners in emergency-override maneuvers as the population suited up and huddled in their shelter-sectors.

Someone else, also suited up, pointed out Pod A, one of a row of hatches still dogged shut.

She suited up, locked her own helmet on, and led him into the ship.

He's all suited up and ready to come here and now it's gonna be for nothing.

Men who had been sitting in their shuttles, suited up, ready to be delivered to some godforsaken spot that they had never seen before, ready to take it and hold it as if it were their own, as if they would shed their last drop of blood for it—.

Men who had been sitting in their shuttles, suited up, ready to be delivered to some godforsaken spot that they had never seen before, ready to take it and hold it as if it were their own, as if they would shed their last drop of blood for it-and indeed they would.

It seemed to take an hour, but finally they were both suited up, backpacks connected, helmet visors fastened down.

Since you will be going from a higher to a lower pressure when suited up for EVA, you must purge your bloodstream of dissolved nitrogen gas prior to depressurizing the airlock and being exposed to the vacuum of space.