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Noun: camping  kam-ping
  1. Leisure activity involving staying in a tent, usually in a camp site or in the countryside
    "They went camping in the mountains for their summer vacation"
     
  2. The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
    "The soldiers' camping in the field was a necessary part of their training";
    - encampment, bivouacking, tenting
Verb: camp  kamp
  1. Live in or as if in a tent
    "Can we go camping again this summer?"; "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"; "Can we go camping out again this summer?";
    - encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent, bivvy up [informal], bivvy [informal]
     
  2. Establish or set up a camp
    "The hikers camped down for the night in a clearing";
    - camp down
     
  3. [informal] Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to
    "The director camped up the movie scenes for comedic effect"

Derived forms: campings

Type of: alter, change, dwell, habitation, inhabit, inhabitancy, inhabitation, live, modify, pitch, populate, set up

Encyclopedia: Camping

Camp, Pune