camping

camping

camp·ing [camping]   [ˈkæmpɪŋ]    [ˈkæmpɪŋ]  noun uncountable

living in a tent, etc. on holiday/vacation

• Do you go camping?

• a camping trip

• camping equipment

 

Example Bank:

• We go camping every weekend.

camp

camp [camp camps camped camping camper campest] noun, verb, adjective   [kæmp]    [kæmp] 

 

noun 

IN TENTS

1. countable, uncountable a place where people live temporarily in tents or temporary buildings

• Let's return to camp.

• to pitch/make camp (= put up tents)

• to break camp (= to take down tents)

see also  holiday camp  

HOLIDAY/VACATION

2. countable, uncountable a place where young people go on holiday/vacation and take part in various activities or a particular activity

• a tennis camp

• He spent two weeks at camp this summer.

• summer camp

see also  fat camp  

PRISON, ETC.

3. countable (used in compounds) a place where people are kept in temporary buildings or tents, especially by a government and often for long periods

• a refugee camp

• a camp guard

see also  concentration camp, prison camp, transit camp  

ARMY

4. countable, uncountable a place where soldiers live while they are training or fighting

• an army camp  

GROUP OF PEOPLE

5. countable a group of people who have the same ideas about sth and oppose people with other ideas

• the socialist camp

• We were in opposing camps.

• People are split into two camps on this issue.

6. countable one of the sides in a competition and the people connected with it

• There was an air of confidence in the England camp.

see have/keep a foot in both camps at  foot  n.

 

Word Origin:

n. and v. early 16th cent. French camp champ Italian campo Latin campus ‘level ground’
adj. early 20th cent.

 

Example Bank:

• Militants raided an army camp.

• She spent five years in a labour camp.

• The children are spending a week at a summer camp.

• The kids were at basketball camp most of the summer.

• The mountaineers set up their base camp at the foot of the mountain.

• The region split into two armed camps.

• There are opportunities for children to attend summer camps.

• They established a base camp by the river.

• We broke camp early the next morning.

• We pitched camp just outside the woods.

• a politician who switches camp when it suits him

• concentration camp survivors

• people in both main political camps

• the appalling conditions in the refugee camps

• Concentration camps were first used during the Boer War.

• He spent the rest of the war in a prison camp.

• Nearly a year after the disaster, many people are still living in refugee camps.

• The scientists split into two camps over the validity of animal studies.

• They were repeatedly beaten by camp guards.

Derived: camp it up ▪ camp out