0 a group of school, college, or university students who take part in competitive debates (= formal discussions of a subject):
You really like to win arguments. Were you in the debating team?
He captained the debating team at Ananda College while I captained the debating team at St. Joseph’s College.
We were visited by debating teams from a number of schools in the region.
His experiences of Canada included trips to Montreal and Toronto as part of the Yale debate team.
