noun
Used in contexts such as survival skills, survival games, or surviving extreme conditions. Often appears in compounds like サバイバルゲーム (survival game) or サバイバルナイフ (survival knife).
彼はサバイバル術に詳しい。
He is knowledgeable about survival techniques.
週末にサバイバルゲームを楽しんだ。
We enjoyed a survival game over the weekend.
生存 is the native Japanese word for 'survival' or 'existence', used in formal or biological contexts. サバイバル is a loanword with a more adventurous, outdoor, or game-like nuance.
Borrowed from English 'survival'.