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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

... bring myself to think of my books as "works," because so little "work" has gone to the making of them. It has all been play. I have gone a-fishing, or camping, or canoeing, and new literary material has been the result. My corn has grown while I loitered or slept. The writing of the book was only a second and finer enjoyment of my holiday in the fields or woods. Not till the writing did it really ...

— Wake-Robin • John Burroughs

... Angeles, there was a move to another camping ground, "as the Missouri volunteers (Error, New York volunteers—Author) had threatened to come down upon us. A few days later we were called up at night in order to load and fix bayonets, as Colonel Cooke had sent word that an attack might be expected ...

— Mormon Settlement in Arizona • James H. McClintock

... which we are least likely to forget. On the Saturday Dennis, Jack Curtis, Tommy Evans and myself had started from Richmond on our yearly trip up the river. Even as we sat in the two punts playing bridge, moored at our first camping-place below Kingston Weir, disquieting rumours reached us in the form of excited questions from the occupants of passing craft. And now, as we rose from the dinner-table at the Magpie, Sunbury, two days later, it seemed ...

— The Mystery of the Green Ray • William Le Queux

... just as later Greece attributed the walls of Tiryns to the Cyclops, or as Glasgow Cathedral has been explained in legend as the work of the Picts. Byamee also established the rule that there should be a common camping-ground for the various tribes, where, during the fishing festival, peace should be strictly kept, all meeting to enjoy the fish, and do their share towards preserving ...

— The Euahlayi Tribe - A Study of Aboriginal Life in Australia • K. Langloh Parker

... a mystery that is most unusual. There is a good deal of fun and adventure, camping, fishing, and swimming, and the young heroes more ...

— Air Service Boys Over The Enemy's Lines - The German Spy's Secret • Charles Amory Beach

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