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Definition: Jogging |
JoggingNoun1. Running at a jog trot as a form of exercise. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "jogging" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Electrical Engineering | The reproduction of a sequence of recorded pictures at a speed faster than the rated recording speed. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonym: JoggingSynonym: Running. (additional references) |
Crosswords: Jogging |
| English words defined with "jogging": Jigjog. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "jogging": ASSISTANT-PRESS OPERATOR ♦ bindery operator, BOOK TRIMMER ♦ COLLATING-MACHINE OPERATOR, COLLATOR, HAND ♦ flexographic-press helper ♦ multiple-knife-edge-trimmer operator ♦ press tender ♦ SANDWICH-MACHINE OPERATOR, set-making-machine operator, shearing-machine operator ♦ training suit, trimmer operator, three knife ♦ warm-up suit, web-press-operator assistant. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Jogging" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (jog, jogging), German (jogging), Italian (jogging), Spanish (jogging, running), Turkish (jogging). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Jogging (2000) Love Jogging (1986) Flintstones: Jogging Fever (1981) | |
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 | This month, 8 million Americans will go jogging, 7 million will play tennis, and 6 million will do cocaine. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Fit for life [elderly couple in jogging outfits]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| "Jogging" by Grenville Tryon Commentary: "Father and daughter jogging in a crisp, sunny morning." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Author | Quotation |
Charles M. Schultz | Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground. If makes it feel needed. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | However, jogging, football, and many other sports are reasonably safe for a person with epilepsy. (references) | |
In rare instances it may be caused by tossing a baby in the air or jogging with a baby in a backpack. (references) | ||
Pre-pregnancy bicycling, jogging, and cross-country skiing are good exercises to continue during pregnancy. (references) | ||
Business | Jogging, the most inexpensive type of sports activity, enjoys some degree of popularity, and joggers are concentrated in less congested urban areas. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | My favorite is the family of four box-shaped individuals, one has side-burns, three don't, who barrel in wearing matching pre-stained jogging suits and high-fiving each other when they score a table within arms reach of the food barges. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Jogging" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 72.34% of the time. "Jogging" is used about 188 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 72.34% | 136 | 27,260 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 10.64% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (singular) | 6.91% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (common) | 6.38% | 12 | 101,599 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.72% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 188 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "jogging": jogging clothes ♦ jogging suit. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "jogging": jogging-pants, jogging-suit. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "jogging"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vrapim me ecje të shuar. (various references) | |
Arabic | تمرينات بالمشي خفيفة, تمشية سريعة, عدو ركض (scamper), ركض بطئ. (various references) | |
Bemba | ukubuta panono. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | бягане за здраве. (various references) | |
Cebuano | dyaging. (various references) | |
Chinese | 跑步 (Jogged). (various references) | |
Czech | bìh pro zdraví. (various references) | |
Danish | hurtig spoling (fast motion). (various references) | |
Finnish | nopeutettu liike (fast motion). (various references) | |
French | jogging (jog). (various references) | |
Frisian | rinnen. (various references) | |
German | trottend (trotting), rüttelnd (jiggling, jolting, jolty, jouncing), jogging. (various references) | |
Greek | γρήγορη κίνηση (cue-play, fast motion). (various references) | |
Hebrew | הקפצה (bouncing, jumping), ריצה קלה (jog). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rázó (jigging, shaker), kocogás (jog), ügetés (canter, lope, trot). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | ulaktuq. (various references) | |
Italian | jogging. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ジュラ紀 (George, georgette, Georgia, going by quickly, jawboning, jaws, jog, jogger, joint, joint concert, joint venture, joke, joker, Josephson, joy, joy stick, joyful, Julia, Junlon, Jurassic, Jurassic Period, jury, JV, whizzing). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ジョギング . (various references) | |
Korean | 살짝 미. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oggingjay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | movimento rápido (tantivy). (various references) | |
Provencal | jòguin. (various references) | |
Romanian | pas alergãtor (double, double quick), mãrşãluit. (various references) | |
Russian | бегать бег, бег разминочным темпом. (various references) | |
Samoan | tamoemoega. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | trčanje (obstacle race, run, running). (various references) | |
Spanish | jogging (running), futing, footing (jog, running), de jogging, de futing, de footing. (various references) | |
Swedish | joggning, snabbavspelning (fast motion). (various references) | |
Turkish | jogging, tempolu ve yavaş koşma. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | біг підтюбцем. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "jogging": joggings. (additional references) | |
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"Jogging" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Goggin, jaggings, jagin, joggen, joogging, Jorghino. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "jogging" (pronounced jÄ"ging) |
| 4 | -Ä" g i ng | clogging, flogging, slogging. |
| 3 | -g i ng | bagging, begging, binging, bogging, bootlegging, bragging, bugging, cataloging, cataloguing, chugging, debugging, demagoguing, digging, dogging, dragging, drugging, fatiguing, flagging, gigging, hogging, hugging, intriguing, jitterbugging, lagging, leapfrogging, legging, logging, lugging, mugging, nagging, pegging, plaguing, plugging, reneging, rigging, sagging, sandbagging, shrugging, slugging, snagging, snugging, tagging, tugging, unflagging, wagging, zigzagging. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "g-g-g-i-j-n-o" | |
-2 letters: going, jingo. | |
-3 letters: gong, join, nogg. | |
-4 letters: gig, gin, ion, jig, jin, jog, nog. | |
-5 letters: go, in, jo, no, on. | |
| Words containing the letters "g-g-g-i-j-n-o" | |
+1 letter: joggings, joggling. | |
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