campear

to go to graze

campear(kahm-peh-ahr)

intransitive verb

1. (to get out to eat)

a. to go to graze

Las ovejas están campeando en la colina.

The sheep went to graze to the hill.

2. (to take out to eat)

a. to take to graze

Sebastián campeó esta mañana con las ovejas.

Sebastian took the sheep to graze this morning.

3. (military)

a. to reconnoiter

Antes de que llegaran los tanques, un grupo de soldados campearon en el desierto.

Before the tanks arrived, a group of soldiers reconnoitered the desert.

4. (to comb the countryside)

(Bolivia)

(Honduras)

(Southern Cone)

a. to scour the countryside

Hombres y mujeres campearon en el bosque en busca del niño perdido.

Men and women scoured the countryside looking for the missing boy.

campear

intransitive verb

1 (Agr) [+ganado] to go to graze; go out to pasture; [+persona] to work in the fields

2 (Botánica) to show green

3 (Mil) to reconnoitre; (Latinoamérica) to scour the countryside

4

ir campeando to carry on; keep going

5 (Latinoamérica) (ir de camping) to camp; go camping

6 (And) (atravesar) to make one's way through

7 (And) (fardar) to bluster