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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Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect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

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