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A simple tent
Schweizerisches Zeltbesteck
Swiss tent equipment from the 2. World War (1939 - 1945)

The tent is a movable, lightweight shelter which uses thin fabric to protect people from wind, rain and from the cold. The fabric walls of a tent are supported by wood or metal poles and thin ropes (called "guy lines"), and the tent or the ropes are usually attached to the ground with plastic or metal pointed stakes as one thing.

Uses

Tents are usually used as shelter during camping, hiking, and other outdoor recreational activities. Large tents are also used to provide temporary shelter for events such as outdoor weddings or circuses. Tents are also used to provide temporary sleeping quarters for military personnel or [[homeless]], or for people who have been displaced by a disaster (such as refugees).

Images for kids

  • Tent at High Shelf Camp cropped

    A modern two-person, lightweight hiking dome tent; it is tied to rocks as there is nowhere to drive stakes on this rock shelf

  • 010 Conrad Cichorius, Die Reliefs der Traianssäule, Tafel X

    Roman Army leather tents, depicted on Trajan's Column.

  • BerberTentZagora

    A Berber tent near Zagora, Morocco

  • USArmyTent

    U.S. Army tent with constructed wooden entrance, air conditioner, and sandbags for protection. Victory Base, Baghdad, Iraq (April 2004).

  • Tent rigid poles

    A simple tented shelter

  • Brody Tent fence 01

    Detail of an early 18th-century tent in the District Museum in Tarnów in Poland, richly decorated in Muslim motifs and equipped with windows – an example of luxury tent-making for the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's magnateria.

  • Lowlands tents

    Junjik Valley man and wall tent. Picture from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, July 1973

  • Wooden stake holding guy rope

    A wooden stake supporting a tent.

  • Nez-perce-couple-teepee-1900

    A large family tent for car-camping, with a portable gazebo.

  • Car Camping

    A gazebo provides a useful shelter

  • Tents

    Typical lightweight and trekking tent designs: 1. geodesic tent, 2. dome tent, 3. tunnel tent, 4. ridge tent, 5. pyramid tent

  • Tent camping along the Sulayr trail in La Taha, Sierra Nevada National Park (DSCF5147)

    Wild camping with a dome tent in Sierra Nevada National Park

  • Nammatjknoydart

    Tunnel tent

  • Inflatable tent

    Inflatable airbeam tunnel tent

  • Boulanger Gustave Clarence Rodolphe C Est Un Emir

    A tent from Boulanger's painting C'est Un Emir.

  • CircusTent02

    The Big Top of Billy Smart's Circus Cambridge 2004

  • 2014 Prowincja Armawir, Zwartnoc, Namiot weselny (02)

    Wedding tent in Armenia

  • High peak frame tent

    A typical 20'x20' high peak frame tent.

  • Renesansni festival, Koprivnica - šatori vitezova iz Češke

    Historical reenactment tents at Koprivnica Renaissance Festival, Croatia

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Tienda de campaña para niños

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