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 po ...

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

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 te ...

, 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 simpl ...

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

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. ...

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 * Bendig ...

* 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 ...

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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 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 *:cs:Institut_plánování_a_rozvoje_hl._m._Prahy#Kancelář_CAMP, CAMP, Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning in Prague * Central Atlantic magmatic province, or CAMP, a large geological formation in northwestern Africa, southwestern Europe, northeastern South America and southeastern North America

People

* Camp (surname)

Arts, entertainment, and media

Art

* CAMP (studio), An artist studio based in Mumbai.

Fashion

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

Films

* Camp (1965 film), ''Camp'' (1965 film), a 1965 underground film directed by Andy Warhol * Camp (2003 film), ''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), ''Camp'' (novel), a 2020 young adult novel by L.C. Rosen

Music

* Camp (album), ''Camp'' (album), a 2011 album from rapper Childish Gambino * Camp Records, 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), ''Camp'' (TV series), a 2013 American television series

Military and athletics

* Boot camp (disambiguation) * Cantonment *

* Training camp

Science

* CAMP, cathelicidin antimicrobial peptides * cAMP, Cyclic adenosine monophosphate

Technology and computing

* Cloud Application Management for Platforms

Other uses

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