camping (redirected from Camping (recreation))

Camp  (kmp), Walter Chauncey 1859-1925.

American football coach and promoter who developed many of the sport's basic rules.

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camp ¹  (kmp)

n.

1.

a. A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.

b. A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings: gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp; had a fishing camp in Vermont.

c. The people using such shelters: a howl that awakened the whole camp.

2.

a. A place in the country that offers simple group accommodations and organized recreation or instruction, as for vacationing children: a girls' summer camp; a tennis camp.

b. Sports A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.

c. The people attending the programs at such a place.

3. Military service; army life.

4. A group of people who think alike or share a cause; side: The council members disagreed, falling into liberal and conservative camps.

v. camped, camp·ing, camps

v.intr.

1. To make or set up a camp.

2. To live in or as if in a camp; settle: We camped in the apartment until the furniture arrived.

v.tr.

To shelter or lodge in a camp; encamp: They camped themselves by a river.

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[Obsolete French, perhaps from Italian or Spanish campo, all from Latin campus, field.]

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camp ²  (kmp)

n.

1. An affectation or appreciation of manners and tastes commonly thought to be artificial, vulgar, or banal.

2. Banality, vulgarity, or artificiality when deliberately affected or when appreciated for its humor: "Camp is popularity plus vulgarity plus innocence" (Indra Jahalani).

adj.

Having deliberately artificial, vulgar, banal, or affectedly humorous qualities or style: played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect.

v. camped, camp·ing, camps

v.intr.

To act in a deliberately artificial, vulgar, or banal way.

v.tr.

To give a deliberately artificial, vulgar, or banal quality to: camped up their cowboy costumes with chaps, tin stars, and ten-gallon hats.

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[Origin unknown.]

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campy adj.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

camping - the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp bivouacking, tenting, encampment inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation - the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony"

Translations

camping [ˈkæmpɪŋ]

A. N → cámping m

B. CPD Camping gas® N (Brit) (= gas) → gas m butano (US) (= stove) → cámping gas ® m
camping ground N → (terreno m de) cámping m
camping site N = camping ground camping van N → caravana f, autocaravana f

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camping [ˈkæmpɪŋ] n → camping m
to go camping → faire du camping
We went camping in Cornwall → Nous avons fait du camping en Cornouailles.
camping gas n

(British) (= gas) → butane m

(US) (= stove) → camping-gaz® m inv
camping ground camping site n → camping m, terrain m de camping
camping stove n → réchaud m de camping
camp site n → camping m, terrain m de camping

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camping

n → Zelten nt, → Camping nt; no camping → Zelten verboten!

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camping in cpds → Camping-;

camping gas

n (US) → Campinggas nt

camping ground

n → Zeltplatz m

camping site

n → Campingplatz m, → Zeltplatz m

camping van

n → Wohnmobil nt

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camping [ˈkæmpɪŋ] n → campeggio

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