Standard Lemma guide

jog

noun · verb · 20 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /d͡ʒɒɡ/
  • US: /d͡ʒɑɡ/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ɒɡ
  • CMU ARPABET: JH AA1 G Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

An energetic trot, slower than a run, often used as a form of exercise.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A sudden push or nudge.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A flat placed perpendicularly to break up a flat surface.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: entertainment, lifestyle, theater

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: return piece

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

In card tricks, one or more cards that are secretly made to protrude slightly from the deck as an aid to the performer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

Acronym of Jewish occupation government

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, offensive

Qualifier: conspiracy theories

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ZOG

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To push slightly; to move or shake with a push or jerk, as to gain the attention of; to jolt.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • jog one's elbow
  • c. 1593, John Donne, Satire I, Now leaps he upright, Joggs me, and cryes: Do you see Yonder well favoured youth? Oh, ’tis hee That dances so divinely

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To shake, stir or rouse.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • I tried desperately to jog my memory.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: refresh

Antonyms: none provided

8

verb

Meaning 8

To walk or ride forward with a jolting pace; to move at a heavy pace, trudge; to move on or along.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • 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 Hobson, in Poems, &c. upon Several Occasions, London: Tho. Dring, p. 33, 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,

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

verb

Meaning 9

To move at a pace between walking and running, to run at a leisurely pace.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Topics: exercise, hobbies, lifestyle, sports

Examples

  • I saw her jogging in the forest yesterday.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

verb

Meaning 10

To cause to move at an energetic trot.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • to jog a horse

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

verb

Meaning 11

To straighten stacks of paper by lightly tapping against a flat surface.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

a slight push or shake

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: nudge

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: push, pushing

13

noun

Meaning 13

a slow pace of running

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: trot, lope

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: locomotion, travel

Narrower terms: dogtrot

14

noun

Meaning 14

a sharp change in direction

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • there was a jog in the road

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: angular shape, angularity

15

verb

Meaning 15

stimulate to remember

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • jog my memory

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: provoke, stimulate

16

verb

Meaning 16

give a slight push to

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: nudge, poke at, prod

17

verb

Meaning 17

run at a moderately swift pace

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: trot, clip

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: run

18

verb

Meaning 18

run for exercise

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • jog along the canal

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: run

19

verb

Meaning 19

even up the edges of a stack of paper, in printing

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: square up, even up

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: square

20

verb

Meaning 20

continue talking or writing in a desultory manner

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • This novel rambles on and jogs

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: ramble on, ramble

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: continue, go on, carry on, proceed

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Bulgarian: джо́гинг (džóging) — energetic trot
  • Chinese Mandarin: 跑步 (pǎobù) — energetic trot
  • Chinese Mandarin: 慢跑 (mànpǎo) — energetic trot
  • Czech: jogging — energetic trot
  • Danish: jogging — energetic trot
  • Dutch: joggen — energetic trot
  • Finnish: hölkkä — energetic trot
  • Georgian: ძუნძული (ʒunʒuli) — energetic trot
  • Georgian: ძუნძულით სირბილი (ʒunʒulit sirbili) — energetic trot
  • German: Joggen — energetic trot
  • Greek: τζόκινγκ (tzókingk) — energetic trot
  • Hebrew: ריצה קלה (ritsá kalá) — energetic trot
  • Japanese: ジョギング (jogingu) — energetic trot
  • Portuguese: jogging — energetic trot
  • Russian: трусца́ (truscá) — energetic trot
  • Russian: бег трусцо́й (beg truscój) — energetic trot
  • Russian: джо́ггинг (džógging) — energetic trot
  • Russian: пробе́жка (probéžka) — energetic trot
  • Spanish: trote cochinero — energetic trot
  • Swedish: jogging — energetic trot
  • Bulgarian: побутвам (pobutvam) — to push or jerk slightly
  • Bulgarian: смушквам (smuškvam) — to push or jerk slightly
  • Esperanto: skui — to push or jerk slightly
  • Finnish: tönäistä — to push or jerk slightly
  • French: remuer — to push or jerk slightly
  • Greek: σκουντώ (skountó) — to push or jerk slightly
  • Bulgarian: разтърсвам (raztǎrsvam) — to shake, stir or rouse
  • Finnish: ravistella — to shake, stir or rouse
  • Finnish: hämmentää — to shake, stir or rouse
  • French: remuer — to shake, stir or rouse
  • Chinese Mandarin: 跑步 (pǎobù) — to move in an energetic trot
  • Chinese Mandarin: 慢跑 (mànpǎo) — to move in an energetic trot
  • Danish: jogge — to move in an energetic trot
  • Dutch: joggen — to move in an energetic trot
  • Finnish: hölkätä — to move in an energetic trot
  • Finnish: jolkuttaa — to move in an energetic trot
  • French: faire du jogging — to move in an energetic trot
  • French: trottiner — to move in an energetic trot
  • Georgian: ძუნძული (ʒunʒuli) — to move in an energetic trot
  • Georgian: ძუნძულით სირბილი (ʒunʒulit sirbili) — to move in an energetic trot
  • German: joggen — to move in an energetic trot
  • Greek: κάνω τζόκινγκ (káno tzókingk) — to move in an energetic trot
  • Hebrew: רץ (rats) — to move in an energetic trot
  • Hebrew: עשה ג׳וגינג (asá dzhóging) — to move in an energetic trot
  • Indonesian: joging — to move in an energetic trot
  • Italian: fare jogging — to move in an energetic trot
  • Italian: trottare — to move in an energetic trot
  • Japanese: ジョギングする (jogingu suru) — to move in an energetic trot
  • Māori: (oma) toitoi — to move in an energetic trot
  • Norwegian Bokmål: jogge — to move in an energetic trot
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: jogge — to move in an energetic trot
  • Polish: biegać — to move in an energetic trot
  • Portuguese: fazer jogging — to move in an energetic trot
  • Portuguese: trotar — to move in an energetic trot
  • Russian: бе́гать трусцо́й (bégatʹ truscój) — to move in an energetic trot
  • Russian: занима́ться джо́ггингом (zanimátʹsja džóggingom) — to move in an energetic trot
  • Upper Sorbian: joggować — to move in an energetic trot
  • Spanish: hacer jogging — to move in an energetic trot
  • Spanish: trotar — to move in an energetic trot
  • Spanish: yoguear — to move in an energetic trot
  • Swedish: jogga — to move in an energetic trot
  • Welsh: loncian — to move in an energetic trot
  • Finnish: juoksuttaa — to cause to move at an energetic trot
  • Finnish: suoristaa pinkka — to straighten stacks of paper