"camping" in the noun sense

1. camping, encampment, bivouacking, tenting

the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp

"camping" in the verb sense

1. camp, encamp, camp out, bivouac, tent

live in or as if in a tent

"Can we go camping again this summer?"

"The circus tented near the town"

"The houseguests had to camp in the living room"

2. camp, camp down

establish or set up a camp

3. camp

give an artificially banal or sexual quality to

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