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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

... estate at Redford comprised some eighty acres. Within five minutes' walk of the house was a sheet of water covering fully fifty acres known as Simmons' Pond. On the farther side of the pond were a few cottages and near them a tent indicating the presence of a camping party. ...

— The Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks • Charles Felton Pidgin

... Mineola flying field, N. Y. to try out new Bagby monoplane I have bought. Not much accomodation here yet. Many of us housed in tents. Not enough hangars. We sit around and tell lies in the long grass at night, like a bunch of kids out camping. Went over and had a beer at Peter McLoughlin's today, that's where Glenn Curtiss started out from to make his first flight for Sci. ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... the unspeakable glory of the ranges and poured its glory down upon the Pass, then swung westward, leaving a chill shadow beside the rock where Douglas was camping. It was mid-afternoon when the stage came through from the half-way house. ...

— Judith of the Godless Valley • Honore Willsie

... on I'd be a popular hero now! First Formers would copy my socks and neckties and say 'Good morning, Mister Byrd,' and the Review would refer to me as 'that sterling player, Full-back Byrd.' And Harvard and Yale and Princeton scouts would be camping on my trail and offering me valuable presents and taking me to lunch at clubs. Oh, I had a narrow escape, I can tell you! When I think how narrow I shudder." He proved it by having a sort of convulsion ...

— Left Tackle Thayer • Ralph Henry Barbour

... burning cheerfully. And over it, on an iron hook-stanchion, was suspended a prairie cooking "billy," from which a steaming aroma, most appetizing at that hour of the morning, was issuing. Various camping utensils were scattered carelessly about, and a perfect atmosphere of ...

— The One-Way Trail - A story of the cattle country • Ridgwell Cullum

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