Meaning & use
campcraft
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Meanings
noununcountableBritish
The set of practical skills needed to live comfortably outdoors, such as building a fire, pitching a tent and cooking.
Grammar: Uncountable: we learned campcraft, not a campcraft.
Patterns
- learn campcraft
- teach someone campcraft
The scouts spent the weekend learning campcraft.
Good campcraft includes knowing how to keep your food safe from animals.
He taught the younger children basic campcraft around the fire.
noununcountableBritish
A training subject or badge in scouting groups that focuses on outdoor living skills.
Grammar: Often appears in lists of activities: hiking, first aid and campcraft.
Patterns
- a campcraft badge
- campcraft lessons
She earned her campcraft badge after a night in the woods.
The club offers campcraft lessons every summer.
Campcraft is part of the weekend course.
Common combinations
- learn campcraft
- Children learn campcraft in the summer program.
- teach campcraft
- The leader teaches campcraft to new scouts.
- basic campcraft
- Basic campcraft includes tying knots and lighting a fire.
- campcraft skills
- Her campcraft skills saved the trip.
- campcraft badge
- He needed a campcraft badge to move up.
Synonyms and how they differ
- woodcraft
- Woodcraft is wider and covers skills like tracking and using forest resources, while campcraft is more about setting up and running a camp.
- bushcraft
- Bushcraft is more about surviving in the wild with few tools, whereas campcraft assumes you have a tent and basic gear.
- outdoor skills
- Outdoor skills is a general phrase and does not have the traditional scouting feel of campcraft.
Word family
Commonly confused: campcraft or crafts?
campcraft vs crafts
Crafts means making things by hand, like pottery. Campcraft is not about making things but about outdoor living skills.
Practice
On the scout trip, the leader taught us how to pitch a tent and light a fire as part of our ___.
Choose one answer.
Campcraft refers to skills for living outdoors. Handicraft is making things by hand, aircraft are flying machines, and geometry is a school subject.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “campcraft”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.