CAMPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does camping mean? 

• CAMPING (noun)
  The noun CAMPING has 1 sense:

1. the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

  Familiarity information: CAMPING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAMPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bivouacking; camping; encampment; tenting

Hypernyms ("camping" is a kind of...):

habitation; inhabitancy; inhabitation (the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men))

Derivation:

camp (live in or as if in a tent)

 Context examples 

You might even enjoy a camping holiday.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Driving snow, a wind that cut like a white-hot knife, and darkness had forced them to grope for a camping place.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Grey Beaver had intended camping that night on the far bank of the Mackenzie, for it was in that direction that the hunting lay.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I had gone camping but once in my life, and then I left the party almost at its start and returned to the comforts and conveniences of a roof.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)