Boot camp can refer to

• Originally, a military recruit training.
• Sports team training camp of exceptional physical severity, especially in seclusion and including humiliating and/or painfull punishments.
• Correctional facilities for adolescents called boot camps, especially in the US penal system.
• Full time residential, and usually remotely situated drug rehabilitation and/or general attitude correction programs, often imposed upon minors by their parents or guardians.
• A full-time indoctrination programme into a rigorous discipline.
• A popular form of instructor-led exercise class that features an early morning start time and rigorous calisthenics.
• The Boot Camp reality television show.
• Boot Camp, Apple's software for installing Windows on an Intel-based Macintosh computer.