Crossword clues for jogging
jogging
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jog \Jog\ (j[o^]g), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Jogged (j[o^]gd); p. pr. & vb. n. Jogging (j[o^]g"g[i^]ng).] [OE. joggen; cf. W. gogi to shake, and also E. shog, shock, v.]
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To push or shake with the elbow or hand; to jostle; esp., to push or touch, in order to give notice, to excite one's attention, or to warn.
Now leaps he upright, jogs me, and cries: Do you see Yonder well-favored youth?
--Donne.Sudden I jogged Ulysses, who was laid Fast by my side.
--Pope. To suggest to; to notify; to remind; to call the attention of; as, to jog the memory.
To cause to jog; to drive at a jog, as a horse. See Jog, v. i.
Jogging \Jog"ging\, n. The act of giving a jog or jogs; traveling at a jog.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, verbal noun from jog (v.). In the running exercise sense, from 1948. As an adjective, by 1971.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The action of the verb '''to jog'''. 2 The practice of running at the pace of a slow run for exercise. vb. (present participle of jog English)
WordNet
n. running at a jog trot as a form of cardiopulmonary exercise
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Wikipedia
Jogging is a form of trotting or running at a slow or leisurely pace. The main intention is to increase physical fitness with less stress on the body than from faster running, or to maintain a steady speed for longer periods of time. Performed over long distances, it is a form of aerobic endurance training.
Usage examples of "jogging".
In this deplorable state of body and mind, was I jogging on towards the Tweed, by the side of the small river called Ellan, when, just at the narrowest part of the glen, whom should I meet full in the face but the very being in all the universe of God would the most gladly have shunned.
He handed her the keys and went jogging up the walk, bobbing and bowing in merry hostship to the occupants of the other units.
The misshapen bags on her shoulders are jogging and slewing most inelegantly as Miss Sugar stumps forward, fist trembling on the handle of her stick.
I found hardest to be borne was their running their rigs on me about my language and ways, which they were all the time laughing at as Yankee conversation and usages, while they pretended that the body out of which all on it come was an English body, and so they set it up to be shot at, by any of their inimies that might happen to be jogging along our road.
A guy on a beach lounger was made to get up and offer his seat to Boris, who took off his jogging outfit to reveal an inadequate bathing suit, and he reclined in the glow of adulation.
Tse-Tse blew Neeve a kiss and started jogging down the street, a flamingo with her permed golden hair, her crazy makeup, her bright purple wooly jacket, red tights and yellow sneakers.
I scrambled out of my hiding place, reassured myself of some privacy, and peed in some bushes, taking care not to wet my good jogging shoes.
He followed behind Peppy, his large backside wobbling inside silky jogging bottoms.
Why a New York banker of excessive weight and more than middle age, jogging on a poney across a Long Island polo field, should have reminded me of a martial figure on an armoured war-horse, I find it hard to explain.
Deemos called quickstep for half a mile, the men were set to a jogging run for the same distance, before, panting and huffing, they were allowed to slow back to the march.
The next three days Gareth Swales spent at the harbour, drinking tea and whisky in the office of the harbour master, riding out with the pilot to meet every new vessel as it crossed the bar, jogging in a ricksha along the wharf to speak with the skippers of dhows and Tuggers, rusty old coal-burners and neater, newer oil, burners, or rowing about the harbour in a hired ferry to hail the vessels that lay at anchor in the roads.
With Washen at the lead, they were jogging, and it was Miocene who suddenly stepped into view, surprising them.
Thomas and his dreaded multiphasic machines to enjoy a couple of hours of solitary jogging through the darkness?
She lives alone on the north side of the city and enjoys jogging around the lake and meals of pasta and fine Barolo wine.
On the bench on the opposite side of the bushes, wearing jogging clothes, wiping his sweaty forehead as if exhausted and needing a rest, Pendleton peered north toward the State Conservatorium of Music.