page_title: Tent
section_title: Modern styles
hierarchical_section_title: Tent / Modern styles
caption_attribution_description: English: Typical lightweight and trekking tent designs: 1. geodesic tent, 2. dome tent, 3. tunnel tent, 4. ridge tent, 5. pyramid tent Deutsch: Typische Leicht- und Trekkingzeltformen: 1. Geodät, 2. Kuppelzelt, 3. Tunnelzelt, 4. Firstzelt, 5. Pyramidenzelt العربية: تصاميم خفيفة الوزن وخيمة الرحلات النموذجية: 1. خيمة الجيوديسية ، 2. خيمة قبة ، 3. خيمة نفق ، 4. خيمة ريدج ، 5. خيمة الهرم
context_page_description: A tent is a shelter consisting of sheets of fabric or other material draped over, attached to a frame of poles or attached to a supporting rope. While smaller tents may be free-standing or attached to the ground, large tents are usually anchored using guy ropes tied to stakes or tent pegs. First used as portable homes by nomads, tents are now more often used for recreational camping and as temporary shelters.
  A form of tent called a teepee or tipi, noted for its cone shape and peak smoke-hole, was also used by Native American tribes and Aboriginal Canadians of the Plains Indians since ancient times, variously estimated from 10,000 years BCE to 4,000 BCE.
  Tents range in size from "bivouac" structures, just big enough for one person to sleep in, up to huge circus tents capable of seating thousands of people.
  Tents for recreational camping fall into two categories. Tents intended to be carried by backpackers are the smallest and lightest type. Small tents may be sufficiently light that they can be carried for long distances on a touring bicycle, a boat, or when backpacking.
  The second type are larger, heavier tents which are usually carried in a car or other vehicle.
context_section_description: With modern materials, tent manufacturers have great freedom to vary types and styles and shapes of tents.
  The poles effectively hold the tent in the required shape.
  Poles which dismantle for ease of transport are either colour-coded or linked by chain or cord, so there is little doubt as to which poles connect where.
  Relatively few guy ropes are needed (sometimes none).
  The exact positioning of any guy ropes is not too critical.
caption: Typical lightweight and trekking tent designs: 1. geodesic tent, 2. dome tent, 3. tunnel tent, 4. ridge tent, 5. pyramid tent
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