Camp may refer to:

Outdoor accommodation and recreation

Campsite A campsite, also known as a campground or camping pitch, is a place used for overnight stay in an outdoor area. In British English, a ''campsite'' is an area, usually divided into a number of pitches, where people can camp overnight using te ...

or campground, a recreational outdoor sleeping and eating site * a temporary settlement for

nomad A nomad is a member of a community without fixed habitation who regularly moves to and from the same areas. Such groups include hunter-gatherers, pastoral nomads (owning livestock), tinkers and trader nomads. In the twentieth century, the popu ...

s * Camp, a term used in New England, Northern Ontario and New Brunswick to describe a

cottage A cottage, during Feudalism in England, England's feudal period, was the holding by a cottager (known as a Cotter (farmer), cotter or ''bordar'') of a small house with enough garden to feed a family and in return for the cottage, the cottager ...

Military camp A military camp or bivouac is a semi-permanent military base, for the lodging of an army. Camps are erected when a military force travels away from a major installation or fort during training or operations, and often have the form of large cam ...

Summer camp A summer camp or sleepaway camp is a supervised program for children conducted during the summer months in some countries. Children and adolescents who attend summer camp are known as ''campers''. Summer school is usually a part of the academ ...

, typically organized for groups of children or youth *

Tent city A tent city is a temporary housing facility made using tents or other temporary structures. State governments or military organizations set up tent cities to house evacuees, refugees, or soldiers. UNICEF's Supply Division supplies expandable ten ...

, a housing facility often occupied by homeless people or protesters

Areas of imprisonment or confinement

Concentration camp Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simply ...

Extermination camp Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (german: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (), or killing centers (), in Central Europe during World War II to systematically murder over 2.7 million peoplemostly Jewsin the Holocaust. The v ...

* Federal prison camp, a minimum-security United States federal prison facility *

Internment Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges. The term is especially used for the confinement "of enemy citizens in wartime or of terrorism suspects". Thus, while it can simpl ...

camp, also called a concentration camp, resettlement camp, relocation camp, or detention camp *

Labor camp A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especi ...

Prisoner-of-war camp A prisoner-of-war camp (often abbreviated as POW camp) is a site for the containment of enemy fighters captured by a belligerent power in time of war. There are significant differences among POW camps, internment camps, and military prisons. P ...

Parole camp During the American Civil War, a parole camp was a place where Union or Confederate soldiers on parole could be kept by their own side, in a non-combat role. They could be restored to a combat role if some prisoners of war were traded to the othe ...

guards its own soldiers as prisoners of war

Gatherings of people

* Camp, a

mining community A mining community, also known as a mining town or a mining camp, is a community that houses miners. Mining communities are usually created around a mine or a quarry. Historic mining communities Australia * Ballarat, Victoria * Bendigo, ...

* Camp, a term commonly used in the titles of technology-related

unconference An unconference is a participant-driven meeting. The term "unconference" has been applied, or self-applied, to a wide range of gatherings that try to avoid hierarchical aspects of a conventional conference, such as sponsored presentations and t ...

s *

Camp meeting The camp meeting is a form of Protestant Christian religious service originating in England and Scotland as an evangelical event in association with the communion season. It was held for worship, preaching and communion on the American frontier ...

, a Christian gathering which originated in 19th-century America *

Protest camp Protest camps are physical camps that are set up by activists, to either provide a base for protest, or to delay, obstruct or prevent the focus of their protest by physically blocking it with the camp. Protest camps may also have a symbolic or repr ...

a base for protest or obstruction by physically blocking a site *

Refugee camp A refugee camp is a temporary settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for internally displaced peo ...

or displaced persons camp, a temporary encampment of people who have had to leave their country due to war or other disasters

Places and areas

Câmp (disambiguation) Câmp may refer to several places in Romania: * Câmp, a village in the town of Vașcău, Bihor County * Câmp, a village in Urmeniș Commune, Bistrița-Năsăud County * Câmp (river), a tributary of the Uz in Bacău County See also * Camp (dis ...

, two villages in Romania *

Camp (Falkland Islands) The Camp is the term used in the Falkland Islands to refer to any part of the islands outside the islands' only significant town, Stanley, and often the large RAF base at Mount Pleasant. It is derived from the Spanish word , for "countrysid ...

, a term used in the Falkland Islands to refer to any part of the islands outside of the islands' only significant town, Stanley **

Camp (constituency) Camp is a constituency of the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands which has been in existence since 1977. The constituency of Camp consists of all parts of the territory which lie more than 3.5 miles from the spire of Christ Church Cath ...

, electoral constituency in the Legislative Assembly of the Falkland Islands *

Camp, County Kerry Camp () is a village near the Slieve Mish Mountains in County Kerry, Ireland, on the Dingle Peninsula. It is close to the Dingle Way and is a destination for tourists. History The village has been associated with the Milesians legend, thus ...

, a village on the Dingle Peninsula, in the Republic of Ireland *

Camp, Ohio Camp is an unincorporated community in Pike County, in the U.S. state of Ohio Ohio () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Of the List of states and territories of the United States, ...

, a community in the United States *

Camp County, Texas Camp County is in Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 12,464. Its seat is Pittsburg. The county was founded in 1874 and is named for John Lafayette Camp, a Texas politician. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the cou ...

, a county in the United States * Camp Nou, home stadium of FC Barcelona *

CAMP Camp may refer to: Outdoor accommodation and recreation * Campsite or campground, a recreational outdoor sleeping and eating site * a temporary settlement for nomads * Camp, a term used in New England, Northern Ontario and New Brunswick to descri ...

, Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning in Prague *

Central Atlantic magmatic province The Central Atlantic magmatic province (CAMP) is the Earth's largest continental large igneous province, covering an area of roughly 11 million km2. It is composed mainly of basalt that formed before Pangaea broke up in the Mesozoic Era, near the ...

, or CAMP, a large geological formation in northwestern Africa, southwestern Europe, northeastern South America and southeastern North America

People

Camp (surname) Camp is an English people, English surname taken from Latin roots. The name is found in UK, Great Britain and in other places throughout the world settled by the English. According to the 2000 census there are fewer than 1300 Camps in the UK. The ...

Arts, entertainment, and media

Art

CAMP (studio) CAMP is a Mumbai-based studio for transdisciplinary media practices founded by Shaina Anand (born 1975 in Mumbai, India) and Ashok Sukumaran (born 1974 in Sapporo, Japan). CAMP's work has been concerned with the history and politics of technology ...

, An artist studio based in Mumbai.

Fashion

Camp (style) Camp is an aesthetic style and sensibility that regards something as appealing because of its bad taste and ironic value. Camp aesthetics disrupt many of modernism's notions of what art is and what can be classified as high art by inverting aes ...

** '' Camp: Notes on Fashion'', a 2019 exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Films

* ''Camp'' (1965 film), a 1965 underground film directed by Andy Warhol * ''Camp'' (2003 film), a 2003 independent film written and directed by Todd Graff about an upstate New York performing arts summer camp

Literature

* ''Camp'' (novel), a 2020 young adult novel by L.C. Rosen

Music

* ''Camp'' (album), a 2011 album from rapper Childish Gambino *

Camp Records Camp Records was a record label based in California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. ...

, a 1960s record label that specialized in producing gay-themed novelty records and singles * "Camp", a song by Tired Lion from the 2017 album '' Dumb Days''

Television

* ''Camp'' (TV series), a 2013 American television series

Military and athletics

Boot camp (disambiguation) Boot camp may refer to: Training programs * Boot camp (correctional), a type of correctional facility for adolescents, especially in the U.S. penal system * Boot camp, a training camp for learning various types of skills ** Dev bootcamp, a defu ...

Cantonment A cantonment (, , or ) is a military quarters. In Bangladesh, India and other parts of South Asia, a ''cantonment'' refers to a permanent military station (a term from the British India, colonial-era). In military of the United States, United Stat ...

Training camp A training camp is an organized period in which military personnel or athletes participate in a rigorous and focused schedule of training in order to learn or improve skills. Athletes typically utilise training camps to prepare for upcoming events, ...

Science

* CAMP,

cathelicidin Cathelicidin antimicrobial peptide (CAMP) is a polypeptide that is primarily stored in the lysosomes of macrophages and polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs); in humans, the ''CAMP'' gene encodes the peptide precursor CAP-18 (18 kDa), which is proce ...

antimicrobial peptides * cAMP,

Cyclic adenosine monophosphate Cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP, cyclic AMP, or 3',5'-cyclic adenosine monophosphate) is a second messenger important in many biological processes. cAMP is a derivative of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) and used for intracellular signal transd ...

Technology and computing

Cloud Application Management for Platforms Cloud Application Management for Platforms (CAMP) is a specification for managing applications in the context of a platform as a service (PaaS) system. CAMP is designed to address the needs of a high-level PaaS system; one in which the consumer (gen ...

Other uses

, an ironic appreciation of that which might otherwise be considered outlandish or corny, or in British English, effeminate male homosexual mannerisms and speech *

Camp Coffee Camp Coffee is a concentrated syrup which is flavoured with coffee and chicory, first produced in 1876 by Paterson & Sons Ltd, in Glasgow. In 1974, Dennis Jenks merged his business with Paterson to form Paterson Jenks plc. In 1984, Paterson J ...

, a concentrated coffee-flavoured syrup * T.H. ''Camp'' (shipwreck), a Lake Superior shipwreck off the coast of Wisconsin