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Oh .. well here, camp is a place where kids go for a weekend, week, to the whole summer to gain independence, to work together, live in tents, cabins or dorms, learn new sports and skills, recreate in the water, on trails, etc., have a ball, and are supervised in their various pursuits by camp counselors like ilovew (while their parents wonder what they're doing).

There's all kinds of camps, (I would think they have them in the UK as well) for different interests, from music to religion to writing, to all the various sports, etc. It's an American summertime tradition.

We are not into summer camp as you are in the States with the big organised camps designed for children to attend but not with their parents.

We have camp sites for families or just groups of people to use for holidays. So have additional facilities but many are just a field and washing facilities and possibly a shop to buy food and a social club for evening entertainment.

Also organizations like Guides and Scouts go camping. This weekend which is Spring Bank Holiday Weekend in Britain many Brownie, Cubs, Scouts and Guides will be camping. In fact a lady from work helps run a Scout group and she has borrowed the company van to transport a lot of the equipment for the weekend camp.

I have been camping myself twice both as an adult at a folk festival (Fairport Convention). Here a friend is pitching her tent.