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camp

verb [I]
 
 
/kæmp/

Definition

A2 to put up a tent and stay in it for a short while, for example while on holiday: We camped on one of the lower slopes of the mountain.Camping
(Definition of camp verb from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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