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jog

UK/d͡ʒɒɡ//d͡ʒɑɡ/

jog noun: an energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.

Noun (1)

jog (plural jogs)

  1. An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
  2. 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.2016, Kes Gray, Daisy and the Trouble With Jack
  3. 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.1974, Earle Ernst, The Kabuki Theatre, page 143
    Synonyms:
    return piece
  4. In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.

Verb

jog (third-person singular simple present jogs, present participle jogging, simple past and past participle jogged)

  1. (transitive) To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.
    • jog one's elbow
    • Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see
      Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee
      That dances so divinelyc. 1593, John Donne, Satire I
  2. (transitive) To shake, stir or rouse.
    • I tried desperately to jog my memory.
    Synonyms:
    refresh
  3. (intransitive) To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.
    • Jog on, jog on, the foot-path way.c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
    • Here lieth one who did most truly prove,
      That he could never die while he could move,
      So hung his destiny, never to rot,
      While he might still jogg on and keep his trot,1673, John Milton, “Another on the same” preceded by “On the University Carrier, who sickn’d in the time of his vacancy, being forbid to go to London, by reason of the Plague” referring to Thomas...
  4. (intransitive) To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.
    • I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.
  5. (transitive) To cause to move at an energetic trot.
    • to jog a horse
  6. (transitive) To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

Noun (2) capitalized: JOG

JOG

  1. (abbreviation, acronym, offensive, conspiracy theories) Acronym of Jewish occupation government
    Synonyms:
    ZOG

jog meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

jog in Hindi

जॉगिंग करें

jog in Tamil

ஜாகிங் செய்ய

jog in Marathi

जॉगिंग करण्यासाठी

jog in Urdu

جوگ
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jog in Bengali
জগিং করুন, জগিং করতে, জগিং করার জন্য
jog in Telugu
జాగింగ్ చేయండి, జోగ్, జాగింగ్ చేయడానికి
jog in Malayalam
ജോഗ് ചെയ്യുക, ജോഗ്, ജോഗ് ചെയ്യാൻ
jog in Kannada
ಜೋಗ್, ಜಾಗಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡಲು, ಜೋಗಿಂಗ್ ಮಾಡಲು
jog in Punjabi
ਜੌਗਿੰਗ ਕਰੋ, ਜੌਗਿੰਗ ਕਰਨ ਲਈ
jog in Gujarati
જોગિંગ કરો, જોગિંગ કરવા માટે, જોગિંગ કરવા
jog in Odia
ଜଗିଂ କରନ୍ତୁ
jog in Nepali
जोग, जोगिङ गर्न, जोगिंग गर्न
jog in Indonesian
joging

Examples of jog in a sentence

  • Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog.
  • To burn calories, a thirty-minute jog is equivalent to a couple of hamburgers.
  • She wears her fanny pack every day on her morning jog around Central Park.

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Synonyms of jog

Forms of jog

Noun
pluraljogs
Verb
third-person singular presentjogs
present participlejogging
past participlejogged
pastjogged

Past tense of jog: jogged

Plural of jog: jogs

Origin of jog

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.

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Phrases with jog

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Questions about jog

What does jog mean?
Jog means an energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.
What is jog in Hindi?
Jog in Hindi is जॉगिंग करें. See Jog meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is jog?
Jog can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce jog?
Jog is pronounced /d͡ʒɒɡ/ (UK).
What is the plural of jog?
The plural of jog is jogs.

Words near jog in the dictionary

  1. joeys
  2. Joffe
  3. Joffes
  4. Joffrion
  5. Joffrions
  6. jog
  7. jog bra
  8. jog bras
  9. jog on
  10. jog someone's memory
  11. jog-trot

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jog (page history and authors); JOG (page history and authors); jog (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jog (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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