Camping vs. Backpacking — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Camping and Backpacking
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Camping
Camping is an outdoor activity involving overnight stays away from home with or without a shelter, such as a tent or a recreational vehicle. Typically participants leave developed areas to spend time outdoors in more natural ones in pursuit of activities providing them enjoyment.
Backpacking
A sturdy bag designed for carrying articles on a person's back, having shoulder straps and often mounted on a lightweight frame.
Camping
The activity of spending a holiday living in a tent
When they were little, we went camping in California
A camping trip
Camping attracts people of all ages
Backpacking
A piece of equipment, often containing life-support devices, designed to be used while being carried on the back
A parachute in a backpack.
An astronaut's backpack.
Camping
A place where tents, huts, or other temporary shelters are set up, as by soldiers, nomads, or travelers.
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Backpacking
To hike or travel while carrying a backpack.
Camping
A cabin or shelter or group of such buildings
Gathered branches and grasses for a makeshift camp.
Had a fishing camp in Vermont.
Backpacking
To carry in a backpack.
Camping
The people using such shelters
A howl that awakened the whole camp.
Backpacking
Present participle of backpack
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.
Backpacking
Hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
Camping
(Sports) A place where athletes engage in intensive training, especially preseason training.
Backpacking
Low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.
Camping
The people attending the programs at such a place.
Backpacking
Carrying something in a pack on the back;
The backpacking of oxygen is essential for astronauts
Camping
A program offering group instruction or recreation without overnight facilities.
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Deliberate affectation or exaggeration of style, especially of popular or outdated style, for ironic or humorous effect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
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