Noun: camping kam-ping
- 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"
- 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
- 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]
- Establish or set up a camp
"The hikers camped down for the night in a clearing";
- camp down
- [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
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