Hiking vs. Camping
Hiking and Camping Definitions
Hiking
To go on an extended walk for pleasure or exercise, especially in a natural setting.
Camping
A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.
Hiking
To rise, especially to rise upward out of place
My coat had hiked up in the back.
Camping
A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings
Gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp.
Had a fishing camp in Vermont.
Hiking
To travel over on foot for pleasure or exercise
Hiked the Appalachian Trail.
Camping
The people using such shelters
A howl that awakened the whole camp.
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Hiking
To increase or raise in amount, especially abruptly
Shopkeepers who hiked their prices for the tourist trade.
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.
Hiking
To pull or raise with a sudden motion; hitch
Hiked myself onto the stone wall.
Hiked up her knee socks.
Camping
(Sports) A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.
Hiking
(Football) To snap (the ball).
Camping
The people attending the programs at such a place.
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Hiking
A long walk or march
Went for a hike to the lake.
Camping
A program offering group instruction or recreation without overnight facilities.
Hiking
An often abrupt increase or rise
A price hike.
Camping
A prison camp or concentration camp.
Hiking
(Football) See snap.
Camping
Military service; army life.
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Hiking
Present participle of hike
Camping
A group of people who think alike or share a cause; side
The council members disagreed, falling into liberal and conservative camps.
Hiking
Walking in the countryside for pleasure or sport.
To protect the glacier, officials have limited the number of visitors to 10,000 a day and have banned hiking on the ice.
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Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect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).
Hiking
The act by which something is hiked, or raised sharply.
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
