camping
noun/ˈkæmp.ɪŋ/
1
The recreational or educational activity of temporarily living in a tent or similar accommodation.
- Camping is a favorite summer activity.
- to foreclose the possibility completely. she packed the footwell of the passenger seat with her duffel bag and camping gear and buckled a stack of seed trays on to the seat.2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 55:
2
The act of setting up a camp.
- In some quarters, indeed, it was different — the troops bivouacked in many places. It was a strange and an unpleasing sight to see these campings in the heart of a city, yet it was picturesque in the extreme.1848, The North British Review, volume 9, page 17: