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Camping vs Scoutcraft - What's the difference?

camping | scoutcraft |

As nouns the difference between camping and scoutcraft

is that camping is {{cx|uncountable|lang=en}} The recreational activity of camping while scoutcraft is a set of outdoor skills learned in scouting that include camping, hiking and pioneering.

As a verb camping

is present participle of lang=en.

As a proper noun Scoutcraft is

alternative form of lang=en.

camping

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

  • The recreational activity of .
  • Camping is a favorite summer activity.
  • The act of setting up a camp.
  • * 1848 , The North British Review (volume 9, page 17)
  • In some quarters, indeed, it was different — the troops bivouacked in many places. It was a strange and an unpleasing sight to see these campings in the heart of a city, yet it was picturesque in the extreme.

    Derived terms

    * (l)

    scoutcraft

    English

    Etymology 1

    From .

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

  • A set of outdoor skills learned in scouting that include camping, hiking and pioneering
  • Etymology 2

    From .

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • .
  • * Debra Doyle and James D. Macdonald, By Honor Betray'd [http://books.google.com/books?id=AQOTYU-5ziQC&lpg=PT390&dq=%22scoutcraft%22%20-berry%20-archery%20-matches%20-camping%20-skills%20-education%20-school%20-scout&pg=PT390#v=onepage&q=%22scoutcraft%22&f=false]:
  • Enemy scoutcraft , extreme range.
  • * 1999 , Jerome Clark, Unexplained!: Strange Sightings, Incredible Occurrences & Puzzling Physical Phenomena , Visible Ink Press, page 7:
  • In August 1954 a Venusian scoutcraft allegedly flew Adamski around the moon, showing him extraterrestrial cities and hangars as well as forests, lakes, and rivers.
  • * 2001 , Douglas Kendall, Battle of Infinity City , page 298:
  • He flies around the Galaxy all alone in just a little tiny scoutcraft ?
  • * 2006 , Margaret Wander Bonanno, Strangers From The Sky , Pocket Books, page 32:
  • In the ensuing years it had never come to that, yet every scoutcraft was equipped with a self-destruct mechanism, and every commander was prepared at all times to activate it.
  • * 2013 , Chris J. Berry, The Celestial Window , page 137:
  • The nearer they closed in; tiny scoutcrafts could be seen continuingly migrating to and from them.