Meanings
- USuncountableThe practice of combining part-time or full-time paid or volunteer work with RV or tent camping.
You may think that workamping is a modern phenomenon, but we come from a long, long tradition.
2017 December 2, Jessica Bruder, “Living in cars, working for Amazon: meet America's new nomads”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 19 Jan 20222 more examples
Phil and his wife, Robin, forty-six, had started workamping after the market crashed in 2008 and the bank subsequently foreclosed on their home.
2017, Jessica Bruder, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, →ISBN, page 62If you are looking for something to do and/or ways to camp for free, you might consider doing some work camping, also known as workamping. We'll talk more in Chapter 7 about workamping as it relates to income, but many RVers enjoy workamping as a way to increase their social interaction with other people, especially RVers.
2018, Marc Bennett, Julie Bennett, Living the RV Life: Your Ultimate Guide to Life on the Road, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 135
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