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tenting

tenting

1 2.7
Camping and sleeping in tents during a short trip
  • noun
  • /ˈtɛntɪŋ/
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  • They spent the weekend tenting by the lake, away from the city's noise.
  • plastic tenting

Isn't it interesting that someone's time, you know, that they're living in tents?

Examples

  • People pitching tents in our major cities because they had nowhere else to live.

  • I saw an elderly man cry when we sang Leonard Van Kamp's arrangement of the Civil War tune "Tenting on the Old Campground."

    Academic text (1992)

  • During the summer, we enjoyed tenting in the mountains with friends and family.

  • We love tenting at the national park because it gives us a chance to connect with nature.

Synonyms

camping
vstenting
124 1.0

An activity of staying and sleeping outdoors, usually in tents, for fun

is the activity of living in tents during an outing rather than general recreation
bivouacking
vstenting
1 9.1

Setting up and living in a temporary camp, often in tents or under the open sky

is used for staying in tents on an outing rather than brief makeshift camps

How Comfortable

glamping
1 6.7
caravanning
  • UK
4.4
tenting
1 2.7
to sleep rough
  • UK
1 8.1

Surface Forms

tenting singular
tentings plural

Morphology

tenting = tent (transparent) = tent + ing

A standard gerund/nominalization from the verb 'tent' meaning the activity of using tents, which learners can derive from 'tent' + '-ing'.

Etymology

Tenting comes from the simple word tent, which originally meant a piece of cloth 'stretched' to make a shelter you can carry. So tenting is the activity of living or camping in those portable shelters.