# Camping - Source: Simple English Wikipedia (simple.wikipedia.org), CC BY-SA 4.0, Simple English Wikipedia contributors - Reading level: Grades 6 to 8 - Subjects: Campers and RVs - Topics: camping, bytes, people, size, time, template - Length: 296 words, about 2 min - Published: 2006-07-18 - Original: - Page: - Open in Sprouts: ![](https://sprout.rootsofreason.org/media/simple-wikipedia-camping-simple-english-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia-66eff1bd29.jpg) Overnight cabins at Älgsjögrunnan camping ground in Åsele, Lappland, Sweden **Camping** is a leisure activity, usually during summer when school children are on holiday, where people leave their homes and spend one or more nights outdoors. They may be tourists seeking nature, adventure, or a different environment. They may sleep in a campervan or trailer, a [tent](https://sprout.rootsofreason.org/r/simple-wikipedia/tent-simple-english-wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia), or in the open air in good weather. Winter camping is less common but in some parts of the world, tents are people's homes year around. Rich people began camping for fun in the early 20th century. When more people could afford it, many more did it. When camping, people usually prepare food to eat that is easy to make. If they were hunting or fishing, they may cook the animal or fish they caught over a campfire. Dangers can arise, such as wild animals or illness from drinking unclean water. NewPP limit report Parsed by mw‐api‐int.eqiad.main‐6bffc68f4f‐rgxsw Cached time: 20260831110231 Cache expiry: 2592000 Reduced expiry: false Complications: \[use‐parsoid\] CPU time usage: 0.050 seconds Real time usage: 0.063 seconds Preprocessor visited node count: 6/1000000 Revision size: 1103/2097152 bytes Post‐expand include size: 348/2097152 bytes Template argument size: 0/2097152 bytes Highest expansion depth: 4/100 Expensive parser function count: 0/500 Unstrip recursion depth: 0/20 Unstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes Number of Wikibase entities loaded: 0/500 Transclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template) 100.00% 2.518 1 Template:Stub 100.00% 2.518 1 -total Render ID 762c9100-a52b-11f1-b176-95f911119272 Saved in parser cache with key simplewiki:parsoid-pcache:31568:\|#\|:idhash:useParsoid=1 and timestamp 20260831110231 and revision id 10591987. Rendering was triggered because: MediaWiki\\Rest\\Handler\\Helper\\HtmlOutputRendererHelper::getParserOutput Parsoid 0.24.0.0-alpha21 ## Picture credits - Swedish National Heritage Board, No restrictions ()