Camping vs. Campsite: What's the Difference?
Camping and Campsite Definitions
Camping
A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.
Campsite
An area suitable or used for camping.
Camping
A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings
Gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp.
Had a fishing camp in Vermont.
Campsite
A place where one or more tents may be pitched for overnight stay in an outdoor area.
Camping
The people using such shelters
A howl that awakened the whole camp.
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Campsite
A site where people on holiday can pitch a tent
Camping
A place, often in the country, that offers simple group accommodations and organized recreation or instruction, as for vacationing children
A girls' summer camp.
A tennis camp.
Camping
(Sports) A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.
Camping
The people attending the programs at such a place.
Camping
A program offering group instruction or recreation without overnight facilities.
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Camping
A prison camp or concentration camp.
Camping
Military service; army life.
Camping
A group of people who think alike or share a cause; side
The council members disagreed, falling into liberal and conservative camps.
Camping
Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect
"Camp is popularity plus vulgarity plus innocence" (Indra Jahalani).
Camping
To make or set up a camp.
Camping
To live in or as if in a camp; settle
We camped in the apartment until the furniture arrived.
Camping
To shelter or lodge in a camp; encamp
They camped themselves by a river.
Camping
To act in a histrionic or exaggerated manner.
Camping
To act in an exaggerated, effeminate manner.
Camping
To exaggerate or overdramatize
Camped up the characters in the play.
Camping
Showing or characterized by camp
Played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect.
Camping
Given to or characterized by exaggerated, effeminate mannerisms.
Camping
Present participle of camp
Camping
(uncountable) The recreational activity of temporarily living in a tent or similar accommodation, usually in the wilderness.
Camping is a favorite summer activity.
Camping
(countable) The act of setting up a camp.
Camping
Lodging in a camp.
Camping
A game of football.
Camping
The act of encamping and living in tents in a camp
