What does "jog" mean?
An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
Jog
/d͡ʒɑɡ/ noun, verb
noun, verb ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
- Grammar: jog is listed as noun, verb.
- Nearest alternatives: nudge, trot, agitate, amble.
- Useful contrasts: dash, fast run, forget.
- Usage evidence: I love to jog more than anything else in the world.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
- 2 Acronym of Jewish occupation government abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, offensive
- 3 a slight push or shake wordnet
- 4 A sudden push or nudge.
"Even when I gave her a jog with my elbow, she kept staring at her French book. Even when I gave her a nudge with my knee, she kept ignoring me."
- 5 a slow pace of running wordnet
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- 6 A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.
"This angle is somewhat more acute than that of the right and left walls of the Western box set; but unlike the walls of the box set, the Kabuki wall is never broken up by a jog or by a succession of jogs."
- 7 a sharp change in direction wordnet
- 8 In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.
Verb
- 1 To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt. transitive
"jog one's elbow"
- 2 stimulate to remember wordnet
- 3 To shake, stir or rouse. transitive
"I tried desperately to jog my memory."
- 4 give a slight push to wordnet
- 5 To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along. intransitive
"Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way."
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- 6 run at a moderately swift pace wordnet
- 7 To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace. intransitive
"I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday."
- 8 run for exercise wordnet
- 9 To cause to move at an energetic trot. transitive
"to jog a horse"
- 10 even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing wordnet
- 11 To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface. transitive
- 12 continue talking or writing in a desultory manner wordnet
Antonyms
Example
"I love to jog more than anything else in the world."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "jog"?
Common synonyms include: nudge, trot, agitate, amble, andante, assault.
How do you use "jog" in a sentence?
I love to jog more than anything else in the world.
How do you pronounce "jog"?
Pronounced /d͡ʒɑɡ/.
Etymology
Of uncertain origin. Originally with the meaning of "to shake up and down." Possibly from Middle English joggen, a variant of jaggen (“to pierce, prod, stir up, arouse”); see jag (“sharp projection”). Or, perhaps an early alteration of English shog (“to jolt, shake; depart, go”), from Middle English shoggen, schoggen (“to shake up and down, jog”), from Middle Dutch schocken (“to jolt, bounce”) or Middle Low German schoggen, schocken (“to shog”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *skukkōn (“to move, shake, tremble”), possibly related to *skakan (“to shake, stir”). More at shock.