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camping out

camping out is the present participle and gerund of camp out.

Meaning of camp out

Verb

camp out (third-person singular simple present camps out, present participle camping out, simple past and past participle camped out)

  1. (intransitive) To sleep outdoors, often in a tent.
  2. (idiomatic) To wait or queue for something expected to occur, often overnight.

Questions about camping out

What is camping out the present participle and gerund of?
Camping out is the present participle and gerund of camp out.

Words near camping out in the dictionary

  1. camping ground
  2. camping grounds
  3. camping it up
  4. camping mat
  5. camping mats
  6. camping out
  7. camping site
  8. camping sites
  9. camping stove
  10. camping stoves
  11. campings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: camping out (page history and authors); camp out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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