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Packing vs Backpacking - What's the difference?

packing | backpacking |

As verbs the difference between packing and backpacking

is that packing is while backpacking is .

As nouns the difference between packing and backpacking

is that packing is the action of the verb while backpacking is hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.

packing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Derived terms

    * send someone packing

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb.
  • # The action of putting things together, especially of putting clothes into a suitcase for a journey.
  • # (sciences, mathematics) The spatial arrangement of objects, items or constituent parts.
  • # The gathering of birds, animals etc. into a pack.
  • # (rugby) The forming of players into a scrum.
  • As a concrete noun.
  • # Material used to fill in the space around something, especially to make a piston etc. watertight or airtight.
  • # Material used to wrap a product for sale etc.; packaging.
  • # A fee charged to cover the costs of packaging.
  • # Special material used to fill containers or vessels for certain chemically related applications.
    • ::::*Examples: Packing in a packed bed, or a column such as a distillation column or a chromatography column

    Derived terms

    * packing case

    backpacking

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (-)
  • hiking and camping overnight in backcountry with one's gear carried in a backpack.
  • low-cost, generally urban, travel with minimal luggage and frugal accommodations.