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jogging

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jog 1  (jg)
v. jogged, jog·ging, jogs
v.tr.
1. To move by shoving, bumping, or jerking; jar: a rough wagon ride that jogged the passengers.
2. To give a push or shake to; nudge: jogged her dozing companion with her elbow.
3. To rouse or stimulate as if by nudging: an old photo that might jog your memory.
4. To cause (a horse) to move at a leisurely pace.
v.intr.
1. To move with a jolting rhythm: The pack jogged against his back as he ran.
2.
a. To run or ride at a steady slow trot: jogged out to their positions on the playing field.
b. Sports To run in such a way for sport or exercise.
3.
a. To go or travel at a slow or leisurely pace: The old car jogged along until it reached the hill.
b. To proceed in a leisurely manner: "while his life was thus jogging easily along" (Duff Cooper).
n.
1. A slight push or shake; a nudge.
2. A jogging movement or rhythm.
3. A slow steady trot.

[Perhaps alteration of Middle English shoggen, to shake, move with a jerk, perhaps alteration of shokken, to move rapidly, from Middle Low German schocken, to shake.]

jogger n.

jog 2  (jg)
n.
1. A protruding or receding part in a surface or line.
2. An abrupt change in direction: a jog in the road.
intr.v. jogged, jog·ging, jogs
To turn sharply; veer: Here the boundary jogs south.

[Variant of jag.]

jogging [ˈdʒɒgɪŋ]
n
running at a slow regular pace usually over a long distance as part of an exercise routine
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.jogging - running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercisejogging - running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise
cardiopulmonary exercise - exercise intended to strengthen the circulatory system
Translations
jogging [ˈdʒɒgɪŋ]
A. Nfooting m, jogging m
B. CPD jogging shoes NPLzapatillas fpl de deporte
jogging suit Nchandal m

jogging [ˈdʒɒgɪŋ] n (= running) → jogging m
jogging suit njogging m

jogging
nJogging nt, → Joggen nt

jogging:
jogging pants
plJogginghose f
jogging shoes
plJoggingschuhe pl
jogging suit
nJogginganzug m

jogging [ˈdʒɒgɪŋ] n (Sport) → jogging m

jogging هَرْوَلة běhání løbetur Jogging τζόγκινγκ footing hölkkä jogging trčanje jogging ジョギング 조깅 joggen jogging bieganie dla zdrowia corrida a pé бег joggning การวิ่งเหยาะ jogging môn chạy bộ 慢跑


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With that he got upon his feet, took off his hat, and prayed a little while aloud, and in affecting terms, for a young man setting out into the world; then suddenly took me in his arms and embraced me very hard; then held me at arm's length, looking at me with his face all working with sorrow; and then whipped about, and crying good-bye to me, set off backward by the way that we had come at a sort of jogging run.
--orchards looking lazy with neglected plenty; the large church in the wide churchyard, which men gazed at lounging at their own doors in service-time; the purple-faced farmers jogging along the lanes or turning in at the Rainbow; homesteads, where men supped heavily and slept in the light of the evening hearth, and where women seemed to be laying up a stock of linen for the life to come.
So, from Boulogne to Paris, jogging on, side by side, the two friends, in some degree absorbed each in his individual thoughts, conversed of nothing sufficiently interesting for us to repeat to our readers.
 
 
 
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