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Camping

noun

The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp. Synonyms: bivouacking, encampment, tenting.

Camp

verb

(past & past part. camped; pres. part. camping)

Live in or as if in a tent. Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent. "The circus tented near the town" , "The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

Establish or set up a camp. Synonym: camp down.

Give an artificially banal or sexual quality to.

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"Camping" Quotes from Famous Books

... numbered four hundred, and we had to drive them nearly three hundred miles, and deliver them in as good condition as when they left. We started early in December, the hottest time of the year, carrying what we needed for camping out on one pack horse. It was by no means a pleasure journey to drive, or rather feed, sheep along for three hundred miles at ten to fifteen miles a day, over dry and hot plains with not a tree to shelter one, and to stay ...

— Five Years in New Zealand - 1859 to 1864 • Robert B. Booth

... early morning of August 21 that the two finally left Bogova, with a train of six burros loaded with provisions and supplies for a three months' camping ...

— The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett

... in love with Florimel: he loved her. I will not say that he was in no degree dazzled by her rank, or that he felt no triumph, as a social nomad camping on the No Man's Land of society, at the thought of the justification of the human against the conventional, in his scaling of the giddy heights of superiority, and, on one of its topmost peaks, taking from her ...

— The Marquis of Lossie • George MacDonald

... the baskets with the provisions, while the whole company walked along the steep river bank, seeking a convenient spot for a camping ground. ...

— The Comedienne • Wladyslaw Reymont

... had ridden, was maddening to him. At one time he thought of getting up, and pursuing his way on foot; but he was stiff in every limb, and felt that the journey was beyond him. Moreover, if the bush ranger had taken some other line, and was not camping there, he would have no ...

— A Final Reckoning - A Tale of Bush Life in Australia • G. A. Henty

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