A person who sleeps outdoors in a tent, cabin, or recreational vehicle, typically for vacation or recreation.
From 'camp,' which comes from Latin 'campus' (field). The modern sense of 'camper' as a person who camps emerged in the 19th century with the popularity of outdoor recreation.
Camping is a weirdly recent invention—for most of human history, sleeping in a tent wasn't recreation, it was survival, so the idea of a 'camper' as a leisure person only exists because industrialization made sleeping indoors so common that sleeping outdoors became exotic.
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