glamping

Glamping is glamorous camping: the outdoors without roughing it. Think a safari tent with a real bed, a yurt with a wood stove, or a treehouse with Wi-Fi.

What glamping means

Regular camping means sleeping bags, a tent you pitched yourself and a long walk to the toilet block. Glamping keeps the scenery and drops the hardship. Sites offer bell tents, cabins, pods, yurts, treehouses or vintage trailers, usually with proper beds and electricity, sometimes with a hot tub. Someone who goes glamping is a glamper.

Examples

• “We went glamping: bell tent, fairy lights, an actual mattress.”
• “I don’t camp. I glamp.”
• “The glamping site had a hot tub, which felt like cheating in the best way.”

Where it came from

A blend of glamorous and camping. Wikipedia says the word first appeared in the United Kingdom in 2005 and was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2016, and Dictionary.com dates it to the early 2000s.

The idea is far older than the word. Wikipedia points to the Field of the Cloth of Gold, the 1520 summit between Henry VIII and Francis I of France, where some 2,800 tents and marquees went up and fountains ran with red wine.

Related terms

• Cottagecore: an idealized country life.
• Soft life: choosing comfort over struggle.
• Revenge travel: a big trip to make up for lost time.
• Goblincore: moss, mushrooms and wild nature.

More lifestyle words are in our TikTok slang guide.