to go camping
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1.0
- phrasal verb
- /ɡoʊ ˈkæmpɪŋ/
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- Every summer, my family chooses to go camping by the lake for a week of fun.
- go camping next weekend
- go camping next
- families go camping
Anyway, Davy, Davy and Goliath go camping with the dad and the mom.
- Anyway, Davy, Davy and Goliath go camping with the dad and the mom.
- It reminds me of going camping.
- Now we're going camping and we have this truck with a pretty big in bed trunk.
- When I go camping, I'm going to bring a sausage roll.
- And I've been able to go on neighborhood walks with friends and things like that, go to the beach and whatever it is, even go camping way out in the desert.
- Grandma has to, you know, make the short cold catch on a little stove like you use at, you know, when you go camping.
- So some people were living in those campers, RV's and stuff and, and they, I think they think that's a good idea because they used to go camping and it was fun.
- OK, so one time my, my buddy had this piece of property in North Carolina we were going to go camping on.
- I always love this joke about these two guys that go camping and the middle of the night one of them hears a bear rustling about a bear is, you know, looking for food.
- But you're you're going camping and you pick up some.
Examples
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Do you go camping with your family at least once a year?
Academic text (1999) -
When we go camping, we all hope that there will be clear, sunny skies.
Blog text (27) -
Brought my friends with me, we're gonna go camping this weekend.
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I just wanna go camping with you!
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We used to go camping all the time.
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We're going camping in a couple of weeks, if you just want to come with us.
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When I go camping, I'm going to bring a sausage roll.
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I could pack a backpack, bring my tent, and go camping for the weekend.
Blog text (2) -
However, we are going to first hit Southern Colorado to go camping near the Sand Dunes.
Blog text (12) -
How about we go camping next weekend, if you're healed up enough by then?
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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1.0
To stay in a tent or simple shelter outdoors
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2.4
To sleep outdoors for a short time, often in a tent
5
7.6
To set up tents or temporary shelters and live there for a time
3
2.8
To sleep or stay in a small portable shelter outside
1
9.9
To sleep outdoors in a simple shelter
Antonyms
How Comfortable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to spend time outdoors, often overnight, sleeping in a tent' is directly derivable from combining 'go' (to move/travel) with 'camping' (the activity of sleeping outdoors). This verb + activity composition is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern in English, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Go camping comes from the simple image of people leaving home (go) to sleep in a tent and sit around a campfire (camping) for a few days. So, go camping means 'to spend time outdoors, often overnight, sleeping in a tent'.