day camp

noun

plural day camps
: a camp (see camp entry 1 sense 1d) for children or adolescents that operates during the daytime only and usually during the summer compare summer camp

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Others stretch into multi-day camps where kids build skills across a full week. — Lauren Schuster, Miami Herald, 24 June 2026 The Effie Yeaw Nature Center is enrolling children for its outdoor day camps. — Sacbee.com, 4 June 2026 This four-day camp will let campers take swim lessons and explore water through age-appropriate experiments, sensory play, simple engineering builds and creative art projects. — Hema Sivanandam, Mercury News, 15 June 2026 Funds have also been raised to send underprivileged children to different day camps, and a scholarship has been established at her theater group, Lindsey says. — Sam Gillette, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for day camp

Word History

First Known Use

1923, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of day camp was in 1923

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“Day camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/day%20camp. Accessed 8 Jul. 2026.

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